Re: [Modeling-users] Request for specific adaptors?

[Mario R. <ma...@ru...>]

>> I have recently felt that an adaptor to a non-relational db server=20
>> would
>> be very nice -- useful for simple applications (and installations of)
>> and/or
>> quick prototyping, but will allow that the same application be easily
>> "scaled-up"
>> to a relational server (with no changes to the data model).
>> This does not equate to simple object persistence (e.g. any of =
several
>> such schemes available, from pickle to zodb, etc.). It is also not=20
>> about
>> performance ;-!. It is about giving a very high-level separation=20
>> between
>> the application objects, and the back-end, that will also allow
>> switching
>> between SQL and non-SQL storage. I am in particular thinking of
>> something like bsddb, with string values (rows) that are simply
>> repr(dict).
>> Then searching and filtering can still be achieved without modifying
>> any client code (albeit very inefficiently!). The advantage is that
>> small applications that do not do so much searching and filtering
>> do not suffer very much, and they can be installed a lot simpler
>> (requiring only to make sure to have write access to some directory,
>> as opposed to setting up an sql server). But, the power of the model
>> is still at hand, on which the application can build...
>>
>> mario
>
>
> This is a good idea, since I usually don't use modeling for small =
stuff
> as i need to use a big SQL server w/. PySQLITE is really a great stuff
> i think my next dev about modeling will use this.
>
> Perhaps we should look at gadfly ? (or ZODB + SQL )

Yes, in fact SQLite or Gadfly are certainly better choices for the
cases I described...

S=E9bastien, do you think you will integrate the SQLite adapter
you had announced some time ago, for 0.9?

Cheers, mario