these debates come up from time to time. The bigger question is normally how to geet it to the phone after
someone asks why BB doesn't support databases. There is no magic here- it depends on what you will do with
the data. In terms of general considerations, see j2me on sun.com or jvm issues more generally. We all
should get a BB hardware reference too LOL...
If you really have a lot of data, there are zip libraries available and I often use my own "compression" schemes.
Personally I go with simple types in persistent store and built my own b-tree based indexing system
which is also persistable and yet testable undet j2se. For strings, this let's me store repeated prefixes
only once although I finally gave up storing them as only longs. So, if I have hundreds of strings that start "http://w"
I only store this once. Before you think about the overhead in linking these together, that gets taken up
by the indexes that you use to find the string anyway ( so, sure you need time to concatenate the pieces
back together, but the space overhead given index needs is low).
