Text database using custom properties

[Brian Alleyne]

Hi all

I am building a note and outline manager in rev. I've worked out my user 
interface, but before going further I wanted to seek some advice on text 
handling before working on the data engine.

I will store  memo fields of various lengths, these would have styled 
text, and would be typed in or imported in html or rtf form from other 
applications. Some of these memo fields could run to 50 or 60 pages of 
text.  I will need to quickly search for any word or string in these 
memo fields. I expect to store potentially thousands of these memo fields.

I was thinking of creating a data stack and storing the memo fields as 
custom properties - in essence using rev as my database. I've read Dan 
Shafer and Richard Gaskin on this, and if I understand them, it seems as 
if this is a reasonable way to go.

In sum, is rev good for a freetext database with thousands of memos or 
should I be looking at something like Valentina?

I am worried about the performance hit on searching when my database 
grows to say,  10000 memos.

Any advice is welcome.

best regards,

Brian