[Zope] Gadfly

Wei Tao taow@bd748.pku.edu.cn
Tue, 04 Jan 2000 20:42:38 +0800


Nemeth Miklos wrote:
> 
> The Gadfly shipped with Zope is really useful only for demo purposes,
> what to do if I want to use Gadfly for production (in a real life
> ecommerce application) purposes (storing business data, SQLSession's
> data)?
> 
> This text is shown by Zope:
> "The Zope Gadfly product is a free Zope database adapter intended
> for demonstration purposes only. It is only suitable for learning about
> Zope SQL Methods. Database operations are performed in memory, so it
> should not be used to create large databases. This installation is using
> a
> non-optimized version of Gadfly and should not be used to assess the
> performance of either Gadfly or Zope."

IMHO, PostgreSQL or MySQL is a better solution than gadfly.
And in a REAL ecommerce app, you should consider Oracle or DB2 or Sybase.

btw, is there any DB2 adapter for python ?