Michael Watkins wrote: > * Michael Watkins wrote [2005-10-11 14:35:00 -0700]: > > >>Yet in Postgres (and experience tells me Oracle would have been no different) >>the "solution" was workable enough. Clearly they are doing some things at the >>file IO level that go beyond simply opening up a big file. > > > as I read what I wrote its probably more likely memory based caching at the > server side that I noted. > > Question for the group: what's the largest number of objects you've worked > with using Durus or ZODB? > > I smell a diversion coming on... I remember reading somewhere that it is possible to get a bunch of book data out of Amazon. Anyone know anything about this or any other good source for large quantities of relational-friendly data that we can use to model and populate databases? -- Patrick K. O'Brien Orbtech http://www.orbtech.com Schevo http://www.schevo.org Pypersyst http://www.pypersyst.org PyDispatcher http://pydispatcher.sourceforge.net