[Zope-dev] Massive scalability

[Michael Bernstein]

> John Eikenberry wrote:
> 
> >
> > Can you tell us a bit about how many indexes (and what
> > types) you were maintaining about each object? Another
> > poster reported no problems with 60,000 objects.
> 
> I was testing and had a real simple setup. In addition to
> the default
> indexes I had 1 index on a string type (of 10 chars or less
> - last names),
> 2000 objects indexed. The vocabulary only had the entries
> for this field in
> it.
> 
> Everything was nice and fast except partial searching. It
> was fast enough
> when ther were small numbers of matches. But as the number
> of matches grew
> the time it took grew along with it, at a nearly expontial
> rate.

By 'partial searching' do you mean wildcard searching with
the '?' and '*' wildcards?

Thanks,

Michael Bernstein.