[Zope] Any working experiences in using compression (for storage)?

[Ausum Studio]

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From: "Jonathan Hobbs" <toolkit at magma.ca>
To: "Ausum Studio" <ausum_studio at hotmail.com>; <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 7:32 AM
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> Our current zodb size is about 7Gb and we are still investigating various
> methods for improving update speed and retrieval speed (we're not Google,
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> throwing 100,000 cpus at the problem is not an option!).  How much data
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> you trying to store that would cause you to want to get into compression?

Hi, Jonathan. I just want to deliver a read only CD catalog.
Your aproach seems to enable to get rid of the real objects and to have a
compressed zcatalog. Both things save space. Interesting. Would you share
the core lines of your external method?

Thanks for the response


Ausum


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