[CPS-devel] ZODBDirectory limits

[Joachim Schmitz]

Florent Guillaume schrieb:
> 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.
> 
Actually we have two kind of members, Students and others, Students are
homeless-Members, here the members-directory is only used for
authentication. We don't need to search for Students

So we would need two member-directories, how can I specify two
member-directories ?



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Gruß Joachim