[Zope] database design question

[kosh@aesaeion.com]

One thing I highly recommend is not using zclasses. Learn enough of python
products to do a restaurant as a python product. Long term they are more
maintainable and more reliable from my experience. I have not been happy
with zclasses for many reasons. With the kind of load you will have a
python product will probably be best.

On 5 May 2001, Arkaitz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am starting to design a web app, which will have a database consisting
> of 5000 to 10000 restaurants, which could potentially grow, but not much
> more.
> I'm a newbye to Zope,and initially my idea was to keep all the data in a
> MySQL DB, and access it from Zope. I need to do some very flexible
> queries and searches on the DB, and I've found that Z SQL Methods get
> quite awkward easily.
> I am thinking now about a pure-Zope (ZOBD) solution. I have thought
> about using a ZClass for each restaurant and keeping them organized in
> directories with the next hierarchy:
>     County/City/Restaurant
> Is this a reasonable idea at all to do? I can write Python, and would
> like to avoid DTML for non-presentation tasks as much as possible.
> Also, I would need to be able to do queries of the style
> "give me restaurants that sell chinese food anywhere in this
> region/city".
>
> I appreciate any recommendation or resource that can help me make a good
> decision.
>
> TIA,
> Arkaitz.
>
>
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