[Zope] ZCatalog Proximity Search (was: RE: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?)

2000-06-30 Thread Dieter Maurer
Eric L. Walstad writes: // I use ZCatalog to catalog objects in the file system included into // the Zope world via LocalFS. // Minor patch to LocalFS needed. Everything works with the exception // of proximity searches. Q1 - What is a "proximity search" and when would one be used?

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Fulton
(snip) The filesystem, imho. This lets you spread things out over multiple disks and even (perhaps) multiple systems. Worst case you've got 50k x 15k = 750M. Big for a ZODB (?), No. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! Technical Director (888)

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Fulton
Casey Duncan wrote: I am implementing a document Library using Zope. It has an exhaustive index with several thousand topics in an outline residing on a PostgreSQL database. This works well and I like it. My question is where is the best place to store the documents themselves? They will

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-28 Thread Jim Fulton
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: +[ Cary O'Brien ]- | | I'll let others speak to 3. I've never had a problem with ZODB, but I've | never put 750MB in it. It'll take a fair amount of abuse :-) I've loaded the entire dmoz data into it (once

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-28 Thread Jonothan Farr
In theory, you could use ZCatalog to catalog objects in the file system or in a RDBMS, providing that you can provide paths for them. I don't think anyone's done this yet. There are bound to be bumps from wjoever does it first. :) There's a patch to the Local File System product to allow

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-28 Thread Lalo Martins
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:07:25AM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: Casey Duncan wrote: Is ZODB up to the task of storing this quantity of objects? What problems might I run into? Is it a wise idea, could a data.fs file of this size (~3-400MB) become too easily corrupted? No. Zope.Org varies

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-28 Thread Dieter Maurer
Jim Fulton writes: In theory, you could use ZCatalog to catalog objects in the file system or in a RDBMS, providing that you can provide paths for them. I don't think anyone's done this yet. There are bound to be bumps from wjoever does it first. :) I use ZCatalog to catalog objects in

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-21 Thread ethan mindlace fremen
Casey Duncan wrote: Is ZODB up to the task of storing this quantity of objects? What problems might I run into? Is it a wise idea, could a data.fs file of this size (~3-400MB) become too easily corrupted? Should I use a separate data.fs file just to store the documents (ie using

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-18 Thread Cary O'Brien
charset="iso-8859-1" I am implementing a document Library using Zope. It has an exhaustive index with several thousand topics in an outline residing on a PostgreSQL database. This works well and I like it. My question is where is the best place to store the documents themselves? They

Re: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB?

2000-06-18 Thread Kevin Dangoor
- Original Message - From: "Casey Duncan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 6:35 PM Subject: [Zope] ZODB or not ZODB? My question is where is the best place to store the documents themselves? They will be static HTML documents ranging from 1-50Kb in