[Zope3-Users] beginning orientation

[Tom Dossis]

>> 3. normally i'd use an SQL database or files to store data, but I
>> understand that zope includes an object database.  i suppose a trivial
>> way to think about this would be to create classes and then each
>> "database row" would correspond to an object instance stored in a
>> folder (itself corresponding to an SQL table).
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> Perhaps a closer analogy of typical use would be: a file sytems 
> directory/file (container/contained) hierachy.
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>> will this allow me to run offline processes accessing the data as I
>> would an SQL database, say iterating over the object instances and
>> then modifying some data in these objects?
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Forgot to add, relating objects is very different to SQL.  Zope2 uses 
'catalogs'.  I think Zope3 will have a catalog product (soon)?