Efficient datastructure to sort on different fields

Hi,
I have to write one program where there are different fields like item number,cost,sales qty,sales price,gross margin etc.
I need to rank the items depending upon its sold quantity ,sold price & gross margin.
Moreover there will be power ranking which depends upon average of other 3 rankings.
Which datasture will be suitable for this ? Should I use one class Item with all these fields & take array of objects of this class & sort the array
1. first depending upon qty & add unit ranking to class
2. sort the array depending upon sold price & add sell ranking
3. sort the array depending upon gross margin & add gross margin ranking .
4. Then take average of this & accordingly add power ranking.
Or will it be efficient to write four queries to get data from database sorted by each condition respectively & add the whole data to hashtable.
Please help me in this. I am bit concerned because all my reports are of this kind. For all reports I am using hashtable with one key & corrosponding vector? Is it efficient or should I use class & keep objects of this class in hashtable?
Regards,
Veena

Hi All,
Thanks a lot for your response. I am writing a class & keeping objects of these in an array, sorting it four times & accordingly adding ranking to the class. Objects can be more than 1000 but still instead of hitting database 4 times to get data ordered by 4 criterias I am finding it efficient to sort the arrays. Do you agree with me?
I can not do it in the database using stored procedure because user can choose items of any vendorsat a time e.g. he can choose 2 vendors' items &nedd to see ranking only among these 2 vendors.
Thanks,
Veena
Thanks a lot.

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Sorry for the (maybe) bad englisch but I'm a German.
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