[webdev] Re: Just an Idea

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would argue that someone who prefers an object oriented database over a
relational database isn't really an "expert" at all :)

OO has it's uses... but effeciently storing and retrieving large amounts of
information is not one of them, IMHO.

-- Jonathan


On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:25:33AM -0600, Clint Brubakken wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 23:41, Tom Hull wrote:
> > 
> > Z
> > Zope is a free software product of Zope, Inc. (formerly Digital Creations),
> > which is basically a software services company built on top of a piece of
> > free software. Zope itself has a built-in webserver and database, and is
> > mostly implemented in and extensible by Python. (It can run with another
> > webserver and/or database; I think it's very likely that we would want to
> > couple it with an external RDBMS, probably PostgreSQL.) Zope has a number
> > of extensions available to add new object types (yep, it's object-oriented)
> > and frameworks, and we can build new extensions in Python. You can get more
> > information at http://www.zope.org -- in particular, there is an on-line
> > copy of "The Zope Book" there. http://www.aclug.org/ is a Zope-based site.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Most zope experts I've talked to, don't use an external database for
> anything except for intergration with non zope things. Most use the zope
> object oriented database exclusively to store the objects. 
> 
> > -- 
> > /*
> >  *  Tom Hull * thull at kscable.com * http://www.tomhull.com/
> >  */
> 
> 

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