It is encouraging to hear that the zope can handle some fairly large numbers. This was one of my biggest concerns. How is performance when retieving this data? Have you seen any degradation as the number of has grown, specifically have you seen any threshold that should be avoided? Thanks, Mike

I asked the same question not too long ago and the answer I got was to

give it

a try and see what it will handle. So far I have been impressed. It requires re-thinking if you are a RDBMS guy like me (and like you sound). For instance, do not store relations by id, or key, or other values. It'll slow things down, store them by path.

Say for instance you have a class and students. Each student can belong to a class....

/class/math /class/history

Those are the paths to the classes. Now in your student table, store that path. That is the relation.

Hope this helps. I have loaded it with 31102 * 5 objects. (5 Bible translations at 31102 verses (objects) per).

If you do decide to use RDBMS however, it plugs into zope very nicely, so no concerns their either.

Jeremy

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