On Dec 16, 2005, at 6:33 PM, Peter Fein wrote:
> 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.

oh yes, this reminds of the the somewhat twisted (sorry for the cheap
pun) idea to use an sql storage backend for an object database, as they
seem to be doing with Axiom, using sqlite:
http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodAxiom

m.