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We are builiding a large portal using Zope. We need to create a large number of objects.
How large?
in one case, we want the metadata of all the wikipedia contents, that will be around 300,000 objects.
The data component of the objects is small, but each
object carries lots of metadata. My question is: Is there any limit on the number of objects in a given folder?
No, but you should use BTreeFolder2 in any case and don't use the standard Zope folder!
'Folders' provide an easy gui for managing sub-items one at a time, and a single interface for accessing sub-items that enables things like the tree view (in the left pane of the management interface) to work with different folder implementations. Im not sure any of that is a benefit to you, and Folders arent the only kind of ZODB container. I suspect you would be better off directly using a BTree of some kind. -- Toby Dickenson