[Dev] ZODB is not a Storage Technology (Re: other formats )

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "JA" == John Anderson <john@osafoundation.org> writes:

  JA> We're interested in ZODB for a couple reasons: transparent
  JA> object persistence is a big boon to productivity -- you don't
  JA> have to write code to get data in and out of a database and
  JA> dealing with data in native data structures is just much
  JA> simpler. As it turns out the Python community has figured this
  JA> out and they are working on a proposal to get persistence built
  JA> into Python (http://www.python.org/sigs/persistence-sig/). It
  JA> looks to me like ZODB is a front runner for influencing the
  JA> eventual Python standard for persistence. Trouble is, ZODB has a
  JA> bunch of problems, for example it's dog slow. So I'd like to
  JA> investigate what would be necessary to make ZODB a better
  JA> solution.

I'd appreciate more detailed feedback (offline if it's off-topic for
this list).  My experience with ZODB applications is relatively
limited -- primarily Zope, where the performance has never been a big
issue.

Jeremy