[Zope] Hardware for Zope + ZEO

[Andreas Jung]

--On Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2003 15:32 +0900 Wankyu Choi <wankyu@neoqst.com> 
wrote:

>
> If most Zope users ( including yourself ) feel Filestorage is not a
> solution for more than 20GB of data, wouldn't ZC feel the same too? It
> seems the stock Zope is not up to a large-scale web site. (if you call
> 300,000 user web site large-scale... I wouldn't but...) Some even say a
> coule of thousand users would be the limit. I've posted similar queries
> about Zope's scalibility on a number of occasions, but replies suggest
> "one might do this" kind of stuff. There's been no concrete answer to
> these queries, an answer out of real experience, not a guesstimation.
> That confuses me. Does that mean nobody has reached the limit using Zope?
> 20GB of data is so normal these days. I already have double the amount of
> data on my site. Guess I'll start worrying about Zope's scalibility
> again.... Please convince me. Anyone?

The largest Data.fs files I have seen so for and heard of were up to 
30-40GB.
It is not a question of scalablility but a question of handling. I don't
like to handle a single 40GB large file.

>
> One mentioned months ago that Filestorage is so robust that it could
> withstand most abuse I could throw at it. Okay, I believe it so. But the
> question still remains. Why couldn't we have a FileStorage that can split
> over partitions ( in multiple files, I mean, why one single golliath? )
> and that has an option to turn off versioning? One might say, "It's
> opensource, please yourself. Write one yourself." ;-) But I just really
> wanted to know why ZODB guys hasn't done that. Is there a reason I'm
> missing? Or is it still on the to-do list?
>
> Maybe I'm assuming wrong. Would you please elaborate what you mean by
> 'RDBMS backend'? Do you really mean I should write my own products to use
> MySQL as backend bypassing ZODB , for example? Or is there an RDBMS
> storage ( Orcale is not an option, if you mean Oracle storage )?

I was not thinking about an RDBMS as storage but about a normal
database to store your data.

-aj