CCK / Views is definitely a safer bet.
For performance, you can go for pressflow - http://pressflow.org/ which is mainly used for enhanced performance.
Also, you can use some external caching like Memcache, Varnish to further enhance performance.

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Adam B. Ross <grayside@gmail.com> wrote:
http://drupal.org/project/data is one such module.

And yay, it has a D7 upgrade now. I've been waiting for something lightweight with good Feeds synergy to get upgraded.


On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
There is, or was at least, a module to help automate that process.




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