[Zope] Q: Advantages of storing ZODB in RDBMS

2000-10-13 Thread Daniel Dittmar
Can anyone explain what the advantages are of using an RDBMS for Zope object storage over the standard file system storage? Is it simply the convenience to have the data in one place (for backup etc)? Does it scale better? In connection with ZEO? I'm asking because I'm contemplating writing

[Zope] Q: Advantages of storing ZODB in RDBMS

2000-10-13 Thread Spicklemire, Jerry
Daniel asked: "Can anyone explain what the advantages are of using an RDBMS for Zope object storage over the standard file system storage?" The folks I know that have asked for that feature have stated their concerns as being: Keeping everything in a single large file is risky,