* Kevin Dangoor (kid@kendermedia.com) [990923 21:51]:

Darran said:

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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.

How about 120 000 objects, increasing with about 10 000 all new ones per year? I'd like to do it all in ZODB too, especially since building the retrieval- system all ala Zope will be much closer to a breeze than having to do it all by hand. tal.