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I'm writing an XML Sitemap generator based around WWW::Crawl

I want to record the priority to set each entry in the sitemap. My first thought was to use a CSV or similar text file but it could become huge and cumbersome. So what are the alternatives?

I could write this server-side where I have a MariaDB instance running so storage is no problem. But I'm thinking I want to run it client side although I don't really know why. So my choice seems to be to hold the data in a Storable object. Run MariaDB, MySQL or similar locally or use DBD::SQLite from within Perl. No doubt there are other choices...

Which would you do and why?

What would you definitely avoid doing and why?

In reply to Persistent data by Bod

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