

It all depends on your project requirements, server architecture, platforms and many other factors.

There is no absolute answer to this question.

When should you use the BIN data file instead of the CSV data file?

Just copy the IP2Location BIN data file along with any programs you’re using. NET, C#, Java, JavaScript and so on, that you can easily perform the IP location lookup.Īdvantages of the BIN data file compared to the CSV data file IP2Location has provided a wide variety of free libraries in many languages, such as PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, VB. The geolocation data stored in the BIN file is optimized to be fast to query and does not take up unnecessary disk space. It is a binary format, which means you cannot read the file like you would a normal text file, but you will need an IP2Location Library to retrieve the geolocation information. The IP2Location BIN data is a format introduced by IP2Location that compresses the geolocation information into a binary data file for direct lookup without a need for a database setup. The other format is the IP2Location BIN data file format. One is the Comma Separated Values (CSV) file format which users can use to set up a relational or NoSQL database, such as SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB and so on, for geolocation lookup. IP2Location geolocation data comes in 2 different data file formats.
