What is the best scripting language to develop a database driven website? [closed]

Question

I'm planning to develop a database driven website. The database is really huge. I can't compare it to Wikipedia but may be it can be as huge as imdb.com. I'm in a dilemma as to what scripting language to opt for. With ruby on rails web development framework, its faster to write code, but is it good for managing a huge database and performance scalability etc come into picture, i'm not sure about RoR. Kindly suggest me a good web development framework for my project. If possible a comparison of your choice with other frameworks listing the pros and cons.

Answer 1

I will like to answer this question in two parts.

1. Database: If your data is going to huge, Then your first focus will on designing the database . Database driven development, always bottle neck by Database not by frame work. If you have time then try to explore database like,

• Hadoop
• Mongodb
• BigTable

Now Come on to second Point

2. Framework/ Language: Here almost all language will perform ~ same level, Here it depend on Design of database and what will be your end application. If going for webbased application, go for

• Django
• Ruby on Rail

If you are planing to develop application in many part (with multi-language) , like Scripting, Database Interface and web interface then,

1. Scripting : Perl/Python
2. Database Interface : C/C++
3. Web Interface : Django/ROR