[Zope] Zope Database Size

[James W. Howe]

At what point does it make sense to store data outside of the ZODB?  For 
example, I have a site which wants to have access to a news article 
archive.  If the articles were stored in Zope, the ZCatalog searching would 
make this task almost trivial.  I'm concerned about the size of the 
database, however.

The archives may go back several years and represent information from a 
weekly news publication.  I have a sample archive of one "issue" which 
constitutes about 130k of raw text (no graphics at this point).  I expect 
that a typical "issue" may be around 130k - 200k.  If I store that 
information in Zope, probably as instances of a ZClass with properties to 
hold some information and perhaps DTMLMethods to hold the many article 
content, how many weeks of archive information could I reasonably store in 
Zope before the thing would become too big?

This archive solution is likely to be replaced in the future so I'm 
interested in finding a solution which is simple and quick to implement but 
will provide adequate performance for my users.

Any info on this subject would be appreciated.

Thanks.

James W. Howe				mailto:jwh@allencreek.com
Allen Creek Software, Inc.		pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html		
Ann Arbor, MI  48103