[Zope] Use the ZODB as an ODBC data source

Cees de Groot cg@cdegroot.com
28 Feb 2002 17:27:00 +0100


Well, you'd need an SQL engine on top of it, of course (and SQL is a terrible
language to implement parsers for), plus you would need to write a mapping
tool to map python classes to SQL tables, etcetera. It's a non-trivial
undertaking, and I've only heard of a single OODB product that ever had a SQL
interface (I'm don't recall which one, but I think it was some Smalltalk
database).

It's probably easier to access the ZODB directly with a PHP module that
talks to a ZEO server or some COM wizardry below ASP (I'm just blabbering
here, I really wouldn't know what's necessary to extend ASP).


Tom Smith <tom@othermedia.com> said:
>Now wouldn't that be a good idea?
>
>It'd be a GREAT integration technology, being able to access the ZODB 
>from PHP or ASP...
>
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