AW: [Zope-DB] Zip-Distances: MySQL or ZopeDB?

[Charlie Clark]

On 2004-10-19 at 13:24:38 [+0200], Gregor Melhorn <g.melhorn at web.de> wrote:
> Dear Charlie, dear Andreas,
> 
> wow, response was fast, hail to the community! :-)
> 
> I thought of using Mysql 4 on Linux for the backend - I didn't go further
> into this for now, since we're planning to develop the application with
> performance in mind, and when near completion we'll look for an appropriate
> hard- and software backend, buying in as necessary and doing extensive
> performance testing on different configurations.

> We chose Zope, since in need of performance and scalability I didn't see
> anything that would scale so well as Zope and at the same time be so easy to
> develop with. Do you have any suggestions on the mysql backend, too?

MySQL itself has at least four different backends - sufficient reason to 
avoid it in my opinion. Things have improved sine MySQL incorporated the 
SAP-DB (now known as MAX DB, I think). In your case you will need to check 
which one provides the best support for your GeoData.

Zope certainly is an excellent platform for integrating RDBMS quickly and 
effectively.
 
> I'll try exUserFolder, though 12 open bugs and a version number of 0.20.1
> don't make me that confident. Anyway, it seems to work for others, too...
> Any suggestions on where to get documentation on this one?

Who needs version numbers? Works fine for p-portal.de

You have to work your way through it and ask on the mailing list. The best 
thing is to try a few of different types of membership and property source. 
You may well find that XUF already has a scheme pretty close to what you 
need. Other than that - hat off the Andrew Milton who wrote and maintains it 
and is always very helpful on the mailing list.

Charlie