[Zope] Zope's scalability across multiple web servers

[Kevin Dangoor]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Spisak" <444@hiretechs.com>
To: "Sam Gendler" <sgendler@silcom.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope's scalability across multiple web servers


> Sam Gendler writes:
> > However, if you are dynamically creating objects in the ZODB (something
> > that is strobly discouraged in a high volume write situation)
>
> Why is that? I thought the connection overhead and maintainence of a RDBMS
> was a big deal? This gets brought up a lot. And I like to hear opinions.
I
> am aware that whatever justification is given is purely about what works
> for you, but I'd love to hear the reasoning.

Actually, I think the ZODB is great. You wouldn't want to use it for a high
overwrite situation (like a hit counter), but if you're *adding* things ZODB
seems just fine. ZODB is really easy to work with and model things in.
Philip & Ty's new SheetProvider stuff will help blur the lines between the
ZODB and an RDBMS, too. If you have a few properties of an object that
change frequently, just stick them on a property sheet that gets pulled from
an RDBMS.

Kevin