Hi All,
At the moment I am working on a webservice to store measurement data. The data in general comes as a massive list of numbers, which I read as an array.
At the moment I am storing the data as a serialized array in a text field. However, since each list is about 2000 values long, the keys of the array take a bit of space. I was thinking about storing them as imploded arrays, e.g., by semicolon. That would save a lot of storage space. However, I would need to implode & explode the arrays every time I try to accas that.
How do the resource requirements for implode / explode compare to serialize / unserialize? I am assuming serialize would be quite effective, but I am not sure. Anybody some idea?
J.
