[ZODB-Dev] Plone in P2P using Zope over DHT

2011-01-03 Thread Aran Dunkley
Hi, I'm part of a development team who are helping an organisation to architect a CMS based project that they want to work in a P2P network rather than using a centralised web-server. We'd prefer to use an existing popular CMS as a starting point so that it is mature, has a large development

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Plone in P2P using Zope over DHT

2011-01-03 Thread Andreas Jung
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aran Dunkley wrote: I'm wondering what you guys, the core developers, think of the practicalities of Plone in P2P, for example could ZODB use a DHT as its storage layer? what kind of querying is required on the DHT? No idea what P2P means to you

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Plone in P2P using Zope over DHT

2011-01-03 Thread Aran Dunkley
I mean P2P as in using a DHT (distributed hash table) for its storage layer so that it can run in a network composed only of the client users with no web-server, the same way that the file-sharing programs such as azzureus and aMule work. We can develop a basic wiki/blog in this way, but would

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Plone in P2P using Zope over DHT

2011-01-03 Thread Marc Villemade
Hey Andreas, I don't know much about Aran's project, so you are right to wonder the necessity to have yet another storage backend. Maybe he has needs and requirements that can't be fulfilled by the current backends. Aran, can you fill us in a little on the necessity of having a DHT ? What are

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Plone in P2P using Zope over DHT

2011-01-03 Thread Aran Dunkley
I have looked at NEO which is the closest thing I've found to the answer, in fact NEO is why I felt Plone was the best choice of CMS to inquire further about The problem is that it uses SQL for its indexing queries (they quote NoSQL as meaning Not only SQL). SQL cannot work in P2P space, but can

Re: [ZODB-Dev] Plone in P2P using Zope over DHT

2011-01-03 Thread Andreas Jung
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Villemade wrote: Hey Andreas, I don't know much about Aran's project, so you are right to wonder the necessity to have yet another storage backend. Maybe he has needs and requirements that can't be fulfilled by the current backends.