iAmSpartacus

yes, a database, because of the whole mess with opening/writing/locking files.

But the real trouble for someone new to databases is creating a good enough database schema. Make sure it is normalized (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization), meaning that you do not have redundant data lying around.

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