Forum ‹ BigDB ‹ The Best way to store away the "World Data"?

[mrgreen]

The game I am working is about each user creating their own "world", where there is a potentially really large Map that the player can customise and fill with objects. ( think farmville where each individual player designs their unique world, that is saved and loaded in each time the player logs on )

I was wondering whats the preferred, "industry standard" way of saving away such data?
Internally I've been using XML data, but i suspect that could be too heavy or inefficient?

Maybe JSON ? Or can I save Data in a more 'raw' format? What about binary?
Just worried as there could be hundreds or even thousands of *unique* objects that are also *not primitives but complex data objects*...

Any tips or ideas?

M

[cjcenizal]

I've been storing my primitives data (e.g. properties that define a building, unit, etc) in a CSV file pulled down from GDocs, and then storing state data (e.g. a user's buildings and units) in BigDB.

[Oliver]

The game Everybody Edits uses BigDB directly to store the worlds users build.