[Zope3-Users] Re: ZODB - ways of storages?

[Andreas Jung]

--On 4. März 2006 08:40:38 +0100 Andreas Elvers <andreas at work.de> wrote:

> Reinhold Strobl wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> So I expect, ZODB is only a front-end for different ways of storage like
>> file, oracle db, isn't it?
>
> My personal idea of ZODB is some kind of a file system. You can create
> container and items. All this is stored in a file called Data.fs. This
> file system is mounted on startup by the Zope application server.

The ZODB by itself does not know of hierachies. It's basically a persistent 
storage of key-value pairs. Zope itself introduces the hierarchy and a 
filesystem-like layout by introducing folder-like objects (e.g. 
OFS.ObjectManager).

-aj

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