Video game bookings datastore [closed]

Question

The assigned homework problem needs a function to store a user-selected video game. This is a small school project, and I was wondering what would the best way to store the information. The program must access the video game bookings, but I think a database is a little overblown for such a small task.

What would you do?

Answer 1

Usually, for small school projects, I invent my own flat file format.

Usually it is a simple CSV-like file, with some key-value pairs of some sort.

Depending on the type of information you need to save XML may be the way to go.

Also, if the information only needs to be saved for a short period of time (One run of the application), and amount of data being saved is relatively small, simply keeping all of it in memory will most certainly make the program much faster, and usually easier to write.

Answer 2

Kai's right, although a good way to manage 'bookings' info of video games would still be a small database (try sqlite). I'm sure you'd want to associate bookings info with a user and so any sort of relationship would also justify the use of a database.