[Zope] win32 - best DBMS with Zope?

David Burton eloquence@eloquent-designs.f2s.com
Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:18:12 +0100


It sounds like you think that all the database work is handled by Gadfly.

This is completely wrong.

ZODB and Gadfly are completely separate.

ZODB is the object-relational database that handles all of the document storage of ZOPE, and which can be used to provide very sophisticated systems in a 
coherent object-oriented manner.

Gadfly is an quick-and-dirty relational database, which, you're right, is not designed for large amounts of information, as it stores tables in memory. It is only 
used if you create a Gadfly database instance and explicitly work with it, however.

ZODB definitely IS designed to handle large amounts of information.

HTH,
David Burton

17/06/2002 10:51:48, "Day Irmiter" <dayi@peoplepc.com> wrote:

>> Why not just use ZODB?
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>As I understand it, Gadfly is the internally-used
>database manager in Zope. According to the
>Zope Book "Gadfly is included with Zope for
>demonstration purposes and small data sets.
>Gadfly is fast, but is not intended for large
>amounts of information".
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