[CPS-devel] ZODBDirectory limits

[Florent Guillaume]

On 23 Nov 2006, at 15:50, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> at the moment we use the ZODBDirectory for the member-storage. We  
> exspect arround 50000 Students in our portal. Is ZODBDirectory  
> suited for that?
>
> I see that searching is done by inspecting each directory-entry.  
> Will that bring us into trouble with that many users ?

Yes. ZODB Directory is designed as a stopgap solution for small  
directories for people who don't want the hastle of setting up an SQL  
database. But for 50000 people, you should really use SQL (or LDAP).
In theory ZODB Directory could be made fast, but a dedicated indexing  
catalog for it would have to be written and used so that searches are  
fast.

Florent

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