I am creating a web-based app for android and I came to the point of the account system. Previously I stored all data for a person inside a text file, located users/<name>.txt
. Now thinking about doing it in a database (like you probably should), wouldn't that take longer to load since it has to look for the row where the name is equal to the input?
So, my question is, is it faster to read data from a text file, easy to open because it knows its location, or would it be faster to get the information from a database, although it would have to first scan line by line untill it reaches the one with the correct name?
I don't care about the safety, I know the first option is not save at all. It doesn't really matter in this case.
Thanks,
Merijn