hohage wrote:
Thanks for your advice. I'd like to make a more obvious description. One of the goals is to build a news site. Should I prefer to save the news articles as properties of the news folder or as separate documents inside the folder. I've read about issues concerning very large folders. Not by size, but by amount of objects. Isn't btreefolder therefore being developed.
If I choose to go the way of independent objects in 2 years I' ll have >3000 objects in the folder. Otherwise >6000 properties of one folder object.
BTreefolder should help you out. Just another idea is to split your news into ordinary subfolders by datetime-hierarchies. Something like 2003 / 01 => All news from jan 2003 2002 / 12 => All news from dec 2003 / 11 => All news form nov 2003 ... I use this scheme for storing the mails within my Zope-MailBoxer and it works very well... even for high-traffic lists. Cheers, Maik