[ZODB-Dev] is zodb good for this project?

[horst@freedict.de]

Hello,

I am writing a (bilingual)dictionary application, and therefore
need some database. I tried to use metakit (for python), but had
various problems, most likely due to my lack of understanding the
concepts behind it.


I keep the dictionary entries in unicode / XML format. The access
to the entries should be direct access (word search) as well as
linear (sorted) acess to the words (wordlists, as in dictionares)
- words should be sorted language specific (umlauts / accents,
...)

The (string) data per dictionary can easily be 20MBytes, but as I
understand, ZODB might be able to directly store the XML tree?

Any thoughts on this are welcome.

Horst

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