Maintaining Persistence

[djam]

I'm wondering what is the best way to maintain persistence for a small software program I'm working on. I need to track some contact information. Should I be saving these as XML files? Parsing text files? This program is for a PDA and resources are limited, I don't want to parse a file and store them as objects in RAM until I exit the program and write it to a file. What is the best way to do this?

thanks

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[chiph]

Do you have a need to sync the contents of this data with a desktop PC?
How much volume do you anticipate storing?
What are the access-time expectations?

Chip H.


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[djam]

I don't need to sync the contents with a desktop pc. Volume would be small approx. 50-100
I will need to do stats on the data on a regular basis and perform new inserts but rarely delete a item.

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[chiph]

For the volume that you're talking about (50-100 records), some random access, no syncing with a remote database, an XML file is fine for this.

Chip H.


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