[Zope-dev] 27 million objects.

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:25:08 -0700


I did try that but gave up when it got very unwieldy. Mind you that was
nearly a year ago before btree folders and I knew what the heck I was
actually doing in Zope.

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael R. Bernstein" <webmaven@lvcm.com>
To: "Erik Enge" <erik@thingamy.net>
Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] 27 million objects.


> Erik Enge wrote:
> >
> > The programmer solving our problems with the post codes has solved it in
a
> > different way than what I would've done (his method is way superior), so
> > we're not ending up adding all addresses as Zope Objects.
>
> Oh well. Does anyone else have any setups that store truly
> massive (50k, 100k, 1M, you know, *lots*) numbers of
> objects? Preferably stored in a BTree of some sort
> (ZPatterns Rack, BTree folder, etc.). the objects can be
> simple ZClasses, or almost anything else. I'm trying to find
> out of there is a point where you start getting non-linear
> performance penalties for additional objects (storing,
> retreiving, or indexing).
>
> Meanwhile Erik, what approach *did* your programmer take?
>
> > Therefore, I don't have any benchmark tests available.  We are going to
> > transfer some 10GB of data at a later stage though (within a month), and
> > that could result in some tests being done - if so, I'll send you an
> > email.  :-)
>
> I'll look forward to it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Bernstein.
>
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