[Zope] One or multiple ZCatalogs?

[Andreas Jung]

--On Montag, 2. Juni 2003 11:54 Uhr +0200 Garikoitz Araolaza 
<garaolaza@codesyntax.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> We are working in a heavy content site, with about 87,000 content objects
> with full-text indexing (TextIndexNg). Usually read-only, rarely writing
> or updating contents on the ZODB.

That's not much!

>
> Due to usability reasons, we'll never give "search in the whole site"
> search results, but "We found x results in the A section, we found y
> results in the B section...", although the users are able to search in
> the whole site.

What's the problem with using one Catalog? You could limit
the search by adding further constraints to the query.

>
> So, we are deciding about giving search results with:
>
> - One ZCatalog at the top. Launch it N times in order to give results
> from each path.
>
> or
>
> - N ZCatalogs, each one in one section.
>
>
> For managing, it's clear that the second option is more useful. (I'm
> trying to index the whole site at once... what a pain!!)
>
> What about the performance with high load? what is more expensive?
> calling 8 times the same big ZCatalog, or calling 8 different (but
> smaller) ZCatalogs in the same request?
>


*one* large ZCatalog should be choice for your site.

-aj