Why not do both? Use ZClasses, but keep the data in SQL with ZPatterns: http://www.zope.org/Members/sspickle/SQLZPatternsExample1 -steve On Sunday, September 2, 2001, at 05:02 PM, Dieter Maurer wrote:
dedmundson@bigfoot.com writes:
I've done a number of smallish Zope sites that make heavy use of ZClasses and ZCatalogs. Now I'm involved with a project where we need to create (and search over) millions of objects. Even though the objects are relatively lightweight (just a few floats and strings), should we be using a backend database rather than ZClasses? This comes up a lot in the archives, but I've never seen a clear exposition of when one should forego the beauty of ZClasses for a more traditional (backend) storage. What about a little test with both approaches....
You should check:
memory and time requirements for updates and searches
is the ZODB growth acceptable
Dieter
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