Hi everybody, the ZODB team is proud to announce a technical preview of a Blob implementation for ZODB. Blobs are used to efficiently storage large amounts of binary data within a database. This implementation uses real files on the file system in combination with any ZODB storage (FileStorage, ...) and native support for ZEO clusters. It is efficient in terms of memory and CPU usage. As this is a technical preview announcement, please notice that this code might crash your computer, delete your data, and destroy your homework. Now, have a look at http://www.zope.org/Members/ctheune/ZODB-blobs.tar.gz This is a more or less recent ZODB 3.6 based branch with the additional Blob support. Check out the documentation in http://svn.zope.org/ZODB/branches/blob-merge-branch/src/ZODB/Blobs/ to see how to use the blobs. Feedback is welcome on zodb-dev@zope.org. You should be able to use this ZODB with any recent Zope version (2.9 and 3 trunk). Cheers, Christian -- gocept gmbh & co. kg - forsterstraße 29 - 06112 halle/saale - germany www.gocept.com - ct@gocept.com - phone +49 345 122 9889 7 - fax +49 345 122 9889 1 - zope and plone consulting and development