[Fastcgipp-users] database query vs file read

[ninti]

This is a slightly off-topic general question. I am building a web app using 
fastcgi++ (on Nginx+FastCGI) which at the moment builds a simple navigation 
menu 
(10 to 20 items) on each page access by querying an Sqlite database (using a 
3rd 
party library). 
 
I'm wondering if there would be any significant gains (or losses) in caching 
the 
menu in a file and reading it in from disk rather than doing a database query 
each request? 
 
I guess the question is whether, generally speaking, C++ is quicker reading 
small 
text files on disk vs querying a database? 
 
Thanks for any ideas 
 
Mike