Tech Issue #1 -- WRITING DATA TO DISK I've always used a database to accomplish tasks like these before, but it seems that what I really need is a faster (RAM-

Tech Issue #1 -- WRITING DATA TO DISK I've always used a database to accomplish tasks like these before, but it seems that what I really need is a faster (RAM-based) way to receive and store every bid value received during the hour-long auction -- along with the bidder's unique ID so I know who made each bid. Once the auction has ended I can write this data to disk, but there's no need to write to disk during the auction itself -- because if the system screws up I'll have to re-run the auction anyways, and in this case the old bids can be deleted.