bernd kulawik wrote:
Hello Zopistas,
looking through the literature about Zope I can only find information about using Zope (as a sort of web front-end) together with a relational databases as storage "behind". Does anybody use Zope's own ZODB for storing data?
You're probably right that RDBMS connectivity has been discussed at the expense of ZODB. For the record, ZODB is fabulous. It lets you forget all the details of data storage. It's highly reliable, scalable, and Free. Choose ZODB over an RDBMS if you can.
I know a little bit about the limitations ZODB has, but its object-oriented features and a relativ small amount of objects to store (10.000 to 20.000) make ZODB look very attractive to me. Or has anybody used another OO-DBMS or even an XML-DB like Xindice as data storage system?
I've been involved in a couple of non-Zope ZODB projects, including an NNTP server and a genealogy program. ZODB has done its job well. Shane