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Reputation: 12085

What's the right solution for storing a large amount of key-value pairs? NSDictionary vs DB

I need to replace words with other words from a dictionary. The dictionary contains around ~1500 key-value-pairs (all NSStrings containing a word which should get replaced by another word). The dictionary is build up dynamically. Using a database looks like an over heap to me, but storing all the words in a dictionary doesn't feel good too. (They may be stored for a longer time and in rare cases also get stored too disk too.)

What would be the right solution in this case on an iOS application?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 223

Answers (1)

bbum
bbum

Reputation: 162712

1500 key-value pairs that are word -> word?

That isn't large. That is pretty tiny, actually.

Just stick 'em in an NSDictionary and write it to storage as a plist.

Make sure access to said dictionary is isolated behind a class's interface such that any future need for expansion that might cause a size explosion can be done entirely behind said interface without impacting clients.

Upvotes: 5

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