-----Original Message----- From: Darran Edmundson <Darran.Edmundson@anu.edu.au> To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org> Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 11:41 AM Subject: [Zope] ZCatalog vs. external database ...
We need to add an academic publications database to our budding Zope site. A couple of newbie questions:
1) Is creating a "Publication" ZClass and then using ZCatalog a viable option?
or
2) Is the GadFly Product okay for a smallish 1000-2000 record database? The Add page makes a comment about Gadfly operations being done in memory - does this mean that the database is not persisent in the Zope DB?
Personally, I'm fond of the ZClass/ZCatalog route. I just like having everything in the ZODB, and the ability to manipulate everything in Zopish sorts of ways. Sure, I like SQL, too... But, Zope is more fun! I haven't run into any problems with ZClass/ZCatalog managing about 1500 objects. Nothing leads me to believe things will be problematic as we add more. Kevin