mario ruggier wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Jesus Cea wrote:
> Sensitivity to interruptions -- Berkely DB: very; crashes and permission
> problems can leave the database “wedged”, requiring journaled recovery
> procedures. -- FSFS: quite insensitive.

I was going to mention this.  Jesus, if you're concerned about
performance and are talking 1/2 TB of data, you might want to consider a
 RDBMS (I use PostGres) and Python middleware.  I've come to love SQL,
but there are a number of good ORMs - SQLObject being the foremost.