Re: Database vs Data Structure?


My very humble opinion - based on several years of working experience
with both the Zodb and many RDBMS - is quite clear : use a RDBMS and use
it properly.

Yes, somewhere down the line you will want
to get a report of all the customers in Ohio,
ordered by county and zip code, who have a
"rabbit cage" project -- and if you just pickle
everything you will end up traversing the entire
database, possibly multiple times
to find it. A little old fashioned
database design up front can save you a lot of pain.

-- Aaron Watters

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