Hi, I need to build a intranet site in which we'll store all references (like author, date, title, ...) to written articles, thesisses, publications, books, .... from our department. The problem is that all these different mediums contain much the same information except for 3-4 fields.I could put all this information inside an sql database. However, it might be interesting to also actually store for instance the whole article... Then I think I better store everything inside Zope. But, I'm wondering if Zope can handle much data in a same folder. For instance, I would like to store all publications inside a folder named publication. But this would lead to a lot of publication objects in one folder... Can Zope handle this? Or are there better methods to achieve this (which I can wonder, since Zope was first build for newspapers which want to show there contents on-line). How do you do such a thing? Thanks in advance, Tom.
Tom Deprez wrote:
However, it might be interesting to also actually store for instance the whole article... Then I think I better store everything inside Zope. But, I'm wondering if Zope can handle much data in a same folder. For instance, I would like to store all publications inside a folder named publication. But this would lead to a lot of publication objects in one folder... Can Zope handle this?
Using BTree Folders I have put over 22,000 objects in a folder. I think taht reular OFS:Folder might hadle that many as well, but the rendering process in the management interface would be painful <s>. HTH, -- Tim Cook, President - FreePM,Inc. http://www.FreePM.com Office: (901) 884-4126 ONLINE DEMO: http://www.freepm.org:8080/FreePM
Tom Deprez wrote:
[snip] However, it might be interesting to also actually store for instance the whole article... Then I think I better store everything inside Zope. But, I'm wondering if Zope can handle much data in a same folder. For instance, I would like to store all publications inside a folder named publication. But this would lead to a lot of publication objects in one folder... Can Zope handle this? Or are there better methods to achieve this (which I can wonder, since Zope was first build for newspapers which want to show there contents on-line). How do you do such a thing?
Tom, The approach I'm taking for two projects that involve storing large numbers of objects in a single location is to create a Specialist/Rack/DataSkin setup. In that way, I'll be able to switch to an RDBMS storage in the future if I want/need to, and in the meantime I can store everything in the ZODB. HTH, Michael Bernstein.
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