[Zope-DB] Oraclestorage

[Matthew T. Kromer]

Ben Avery wrote:

> hi all,
>
> what's the current state of Oraclestorage, and is anyone using it?
>
> I have a development site soon to be brought into production, the data 
> is stored largely relationally rather than ZODB objects, and we have a 
> big fat database server running Oracle 8i, available for use. I'm 
> currently using filestorage, and haven't had any problems with it, but 
> I'm a little worried by occasional strangenesses reported in the 
> 'Goblins of Zope' thread currently running on the zope@zope.org 
> mailing list.
>
> My Zope instance will be running on a dedicated single-processor Sun 
> LX-50 running Solaris 8, which should be stable enough, but is a lot 
> slower than the Oracle database server. Would anyone recommend 
> sticking to filestorage, or going with Oraclestorage?
>
> TIA
>
> Ben

At its fastest, OracleStorage will work at about 20% of the speed of 
FileStorage.

I think a few people do use OracleStorage, but not large numbers.