It sounds like you think that all the database work is handled by Gadfly. This is completely wrong. ZODB and Gadfly are completely separate. ZODB is the object-relational database that handles all of the document storage of ZOPE, and which can be used to provide very sophisticated systems in a coherent object-oriented manner. Gadfly is an quick-and-dirty relational database, which, you're right, is not designed for large amounts of information, as it stores tables in memory. It is only used if you create a Gadfly database instance and explicitly work with it, however. ZODB definitely IS designed to handle large amounts of information. HTH, David Burton 17/06/2002 10:51:48, "Day Irmiter" <dayi@peoplepc.com> wrote:
Why not just use ZODB?
As I understand it, Gadfly is the internally-used database manager in Zope. According to the Zope Book "Gadfly is included with Zope for demonstration purposes and small data sets. Gadfly is fast, but is not intended for large amounts of information".
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