Algorithm for searching student database

[cppandchelseaFan]

Hi,
I am working on a school database management project. I want to make a search program in c++ which could run on thousands of records and can list down records with particular fields, like say the list of all children with birthday on a specific day, or list of all children with name Frank. Which algorithm will be best suited in terms of timing?


Thanks.

[jkmyoung]

So many ambiguities:
Why aren't you using the specified query language for this database?
How are you connecting to the database?
Are you sorting the database?
Are you indexing the database?
Are particular searches repeated over and over?

I'm not sure how this is immediately related to algorithms.

[cppandchelseaFan]

Hi,

I dont have access to the database directly, I am just using a library which is providing some APIs.

Thats why, want to implement the whole thing in C++ :))

[jkmyoung]

What library are you using, and how are you using it so far? I'm assuming you already have a solution but are finding it too slow.