GeoNames Forum

Can anyone help me in finding approach for parsing data from data dump <allCountries>.txt and putting record into database.

How efficient is it to use java coding for the same solution?
how will the performance will affect when i use java?

Or is it good to use any other approaches.
I am looking for ongoing update on allcountries.txt

Sam

Sam

Parsing is not an issue. The question is what you want to do with the data you have parsed. The processing after the parsing is usually more critical. And for most applications you don't have to parse it at all and simply load the data into a database. See the faq section of the forum for details.

Marc