Persistence with Zend Framework

I have some data which I rarely have to update. Further I want that data to be very fast to access. What kind of solution do you recommend me in Zend Framework. The o开发者_运维问答ptions I thaught are a Mysql database, some XML files, or directly writing the data in php arrays... Is there any ORM library I should use?

---

Since you're already using Zend Framework, why not use Zend_Config and store the data as ini/xml/json/yaml.

That's how Zend already stores your application settings. And if it's really not that much data, just store it in application.ini.

---

I'd say you can use whatever you want in your backend but then wrap it in Zend_Cache. This way you have some control over a refresh cycle but also the data in a convenient way and fast access.

---

Don't use an ORM if your aiming at fast access. Use an ORM for easy developing. The fastest solution is storing this data in a plain PHP array I guess. But it's not the best solution if you ask me.

What kind of data are we talking about? How often and when does is change?

---

Store your data in a MySQL database but also index it using Zend_Search_Lucene.

Retrieving the data from a Lucene index is pretty fast from my experience

---

My favorite option in this cases is use Zend Cache. If you want to optimize the response time even more you can use the memcached library http://memcached.org/ . That can be used with Zend_Cache with little effort.