[Zope] ZODB vs Relational Databases

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:33:14 +0100


Michael Long wrote at 2003-3-10 09:05 -0500:
 > Please forgive me if this is in a FAQ somewhere. I am writting an
 > application that will be capturing financial information. If I use the
 > ZODB and create expense and income objects to capture this information
 > there will over a 1000 objects added a week. I will be tracking history,
 > archiving data, etc. Is Zope the right tool for this type of application
 > or am I better off creating the objects that this data is associated
 > (companies, people, properties, etc) within the ZODB and using a
 > relational database such as PostgreSQL to track the higher volume
 > financial data.

If I have lots of highly structured data, I would go for
a relational database and not store them in the ZODB.


Dieter