[Zope] ZODB limits

[Paul Winkler]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:11:46PM +0200, Heimo Laukkanen wrote:
> >Message: 36
> >Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:28 +0100
> >From: "WebMaster at solari.it" <webmaster at solari.it>
> >Subject: [Zope] ZODB limits
> >To: zope at zope.org
> >Message-ID: <4011370C.1090905 at solari.it>
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> >Is somebody aware of **fully-tested, real-world** applications with 
> >multi-GB storage or, in other words, should I stay with ZODB or search 
> >for alternatives?
> 
> Well Zope corporation has experience of tens gigabytes of data in  
> FileStorage ( Data.fs ) in ZEO enviroment, so that shouldn't be the main  
> issue.

And if it is, I second azazel's recommendation: DirectoryStorage
is pretty nice.  Ours is "only" about 3 GB total, currently.

> Larger issue is how fast your system will be for uplaoding and  
> downloading the data from ZODB. Zope sucks big rocks in handling big  
> files, so that might bring your system down or force you to bring in more  
> machines into cluster - or move storing and serving large files outside  
> ZODB.

Or it might force you to help fix those problems ;-)
there have been some discussions on zope-dev about this issue,
which I am determined to work on whenever i can find the time.

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