Symfony
has turned me on to the power of YAML. It used to be default for me to use MySQL to make tables for an ecommerce site of say supported_countries
,units_of_measure
or sku_conditions
. But now, I might prefer using YAML
to create a config/countries.yml
, config/units.yml
or config/skuConditions.yml
. So I'm curious -- in situations like this are there an significant performance factors to consider when deciding to parse and analyzing a YAML file ~ vs ~ Querying and Analyzing SQL data?
countries.yml
US:
code: US
name: United States
CA:
code: CA
name: Canada
skuConditions.yml
default-unit: new
units
new:
short: new
long: brand spanking new
description: never been used.
open-box:
short: open
long: pretty much new
description: the box has been opened but never used.