[CPS-devel] ZODBDirectory limits

[Florent Guillaume]

By using a stacking directory.

Florent

On 24 Nov 2006, at 09:38, Joachim Schmitz wrote:

> 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 ?
>
>
>
> -- 
> Gruß Joachim
>
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