Dumping Lots of Data to Disk in Realtime?

AmiChris asks: "At work I need something that can dump sequential entries for several hundred thousand instruments in realtime. It also needs to be able to retrieve data for a single instrument relatively quickly. A standard relational database won't cut it. It has to keep up with 2000+ updates per second, mostly on a subset of a few hundred instruments active at a given time. I've got some ideas of how I would build such a beast, based on flat files and a system of caching entries in memory. I would like to know if: someone has already built something like this; and if not, would someone want to use it if I build it? I'm not sure what other applications there might be. I could see recording massive amounts of network traffic or scientific data with such a library. I'm guessing someone out there has done something like this before. I'm currently working with C++ on Windows. "

Suuuure.

[Seumas]

Yeah, like it isn't obvious that this guy works for the government's TIA program and is looking for ways to maintain all of the data culled from the thousands of audio and video sensors they have planted around.

Suuuure.

The Solution

[cwraig]

the solution to your problem comes in the form of a little known software application from a vender called Microsoft.
The program is called Microsoft Access 97
:P

Re:Just use the file system

[eric17]

No problem..almost all Windows boxes have this upgrade option called "Linux". Check the manual...