xml good or bad?
i am not an expert programmer :D

well i had built an application an year ago in vb which usually deals with querying the data, process it and display in a list box. Initially i did not have any idea on databases, so i had done it with files :)

After few months i altered it(uses ms access database)

well thats story about a year ago. recently i learnt java, python. so very crazy abt java. well python is also superb, but i love to code in java. so ive decided to re-code the application again with some additional features using java.

The application will query the database as the user types something in a textbox and processes n displays the resulting query in a listbox.

conceptually the database will have only one table. The database will contain approximately 60,000 records. each record will have three fields, two of type String, other one is a unique number. occasionally there will be insertion of records, say monthly 500 records or so. never alter existing data.

So this is the situation..

The question is - what do i choose for database? is ms-access good for this?? what about xml? what are other good options best suited for above situation??
some say rdbms is not good for several reasons, should i not go with rdbms??



xml good or bad?
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i am not an expert programmer :D

well i had built an application an year ago in vb which usually deals with querying the data, process it and display in a list box. Initially i did not have any idea on databases, so i had done it with files :)

After few months i altered it(uses ms access database)

well thats story about a year ago. recently i learnt java, python. so very crazy abt java. well python is also superb, but i love to code in java. so ive decided to re-code the application again with some additional features using java.

The application will query the database as the user types something in a textbox and processes n displays the resulting query in a listbox.

conceptually the database will have only one table. The database will contain approximately 60,000 records. each record will have three fields, two of type String, other one is a unique number. occasionally there will be insertion of records, say monthly 500 records or so. never alter existing data.

So this is the situation..

The question is - what do i choose for database? is ms-access good for this?? what about xml? what are other good options best suited for above situation??
some say rdbms is not good for several reasons, should i not go with rdbms??


