Juan David Ibáñez Palomar said: > This is just a simple example, we could talk about full text indexing > and searching, etc.. > > Python needs a catalog. Many people like me will never leave Zope > without a catalog. I did some work using Async's IndexedCatalog - it certainly offers an approach to querying ZODB that feels familiar, although at the expense of an order of magnitude less performance (or more) so I wouldn't blindly use it. Very easy to get going with standalone ZODB. But it doesn't provide functionality like full text indexing, and I don't have the cycles to look at using any of the Zope centric solutions outside of Zope. Actually I don't have the cycles to bend my mind around Zope period.