[Zope] ZCatalog vs. external database ...

[Kevin Dangoor]

-----Original Message-----
From: Darran Edmundson <Darran.Edmundson@anu.edu.au>
To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org>
Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 11:41 AM
Subject: [Zope] ZCatalog vs. external database ...


>
>We need to add an academic publications database to our
>budding Zope site.  A couple of newbie questions:
>
>1) Is creating a "Publication" ZClass and then using ZCatalog
>   a viable option?
>
>or
>
>2) Is the GadFly Product okay for a smallish 1000-2000
>   record database?  The Add page makes a comment about
>   Gadfly operations being done in memory - does this mean
>   that the database is not persisent in the Zope DB?

Personally, I'm fond of the ZClass/ZCatalog route. I just like having
everything in the ZODB, and the ability to manipulate everything in Zopish
sorts of ways. Sure, I like SQL, too... But, Zope is more fun!

I haven't run into any problems with ZClass/ZCatalog managing about 1500
objects. Nothing leads me to believe things will be problematic as we add
more.

Kevin