Re: Best tool for large (500MB) text manipulation
Re: Best tool for large (500MB) text manipulation
- Subject: Re: Best tool for large (500MB) text manipulation
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:05:37 -0700
> Jan Steinman said:
>
>> FileMaker Pro is
>> fairly easy to learn, but has serious shortcomings for the long term.
>> MySQL is free, but will require more learning time.
>
> If a database app can be fitting the requirements for the project, I
> think 4D is a viable option. While being as easy to learn as Filemaker
> for *simple projects*, but equally to Filemaker taking longer to learn
> for *advanced projects* (though less in this case than FM), it's powerful
> and also possible to build good GUIs to the data (IMHO leaving Filemaker
> well behind in both cases. I could list pages of features, but this is
> the wrong list).
>
> But MySQL or PostgreSQL may also work if the demands on native GUI isn't
> top priority, but rather number crunching. The Bbedit choice seem to
> point that way.
>
> I'm very curious to hear what the application is?
It's chaos-theory based stock trending. The person doing it is a relative, I
know a tiny bit about what he's doing but it's all based on dinner table
conversation and not direct technical involvement by me - so what you see
here is what you get. He's been doing it for over 10 years and has a
specialty market for his services.
A first step is to do some processing and selection from 500MB +/- text
files of trading data. All the other processing is done with custom C
routines and 4D, Filemaker, MySQL, etc are not a candidates.
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