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 of

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 and

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 the

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 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 language?