[Zope] ZCatalog vs. external database ...

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 01:13 AM 9/24/99 +1000, Darran Edmundson wrote:
>
>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?

Are Publications relatively static?  If so, ZCatalog is an excellent
choice.  (By relatively static, meaning you don't usually go out and change
hundreds of Publication objects every day).


>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?

Gadfly has its own persistent data format that is stored seperately from
the ZODB.