title: Is a file read faster than reading data from the database?
body: <p>Which is more expensive to do in terms of resources and efficiency, File read/write operation or Database Read/Write operation? </p>
  
  <p>I'm using MongoDB, with Python. I't be preforming about 100k requests on the db/file per minute. Also, there's about 15000 documents in the database / file.</p>
  
  <p>Which would be faster? thanks in advance.</p>