[Zope] future-proofing content

[kapil thangavelu]

On Tuesday 02 April 2002 07:16 am, Kevin Carlson wrote:
> Casey,
>
> I read this thread with some interest because I am facing a decision of a
> similar sort. I am a fan of putting all of the content of our site into the
> Zope DB but am meeting with skepticism from some. Since ZODB has the
> distinction of being an object database and several attempts at that
> technology in the past have met with less than optimum performance results
> as the database grew (think ObjectStore), a few people seem to think an Rdb
> would be better suited.  I would really like to be able to provided them
> with some performance benchmarks related to ZODB.  Do you have anything
> available that shows performance of the ZODB as the database grows to say
> 20GB or 100GB?  Are there any available statistics related to the size of
> machine needed to support a large user community of say 10K with a database
> that size?

while i'm told there are databases of this size, i think it misses the point, 
namely that zope can very easily be used to integrate diverse data sources. 
as such a separation of data storage concerns from the application logic can 
be used such that where the content is stored should be a domain concern.

ie take a popular message board store its contents in a rdbms, take some news 
releases store them in the zodb, use zope as the glue and the application 
logic to make things fit together.

-k