RE: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments withORMapping

2001-05-14 Thread Albert Langer
[Karl Anderson] Casey Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not arguing necessarily for SQL as a query language for the ZODB. > Although it is an accepted standard, but not a perfect one by any means > especially for OODBs. Its appeal lies mainly in the high level of > community familiarity a

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments withORMapping

2001-05-14 Thread Karl Anderson
Casey Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not arguing necessarily for SQL as a query language for the ZODB. > Although it is an accepted standard, but not a perfect one by any means > especially for OODBs. Its appeal lies mainly in the high level of > community familiarity and the plethora

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments withORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Casey Duncan
David Brown wrote: > > At 11:45 AM 5/11/2001 -0600, Casey Duncan wrote: > > >One of the biggest limitations in my mind is the lack of a general query > >language for the ZODB like what you get with most OODBMS and all RDBMS. > > I used to think this as well. > > But isn't Python a decent query

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments withORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Joachim Werner
> As a matter of fact, we did a quick CMF demo that has the content of the > zope list, zope-dev, and many of the other zope.org lists, and the > comp.lang.python list for the past few years. The catalog searches are > very very fast, i can't recall if the demo was set up with some > interesting

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments withORMapping

2001-05-11 Thread Ken Manheimer
On friday, 11 May, Joachim Warner wrote: > > The other motivations for an RDBMS are (1) people have existing schemas > > and want Zope to access the same data as their existing apps, and they > > want it to be transparent, and (2) tables with millions of entries are > > easily stored in Zope but

Re: oodb philosophics ;) was: Re: [Zope-dev] Experiments withORMapping

2001-05-10 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hi Casey, > How about XML storage! 8^) You think startup times are slow now... argh ;) Buzzword-detected ;)) XML would be only a different pickling format :) Regards Tino ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/list