ZODB articles

Contents

• An overview of the ZODB (by Laurence Rowe)
  • Comparison to other database types
  • Transactions
  • Storage Options
  • Other features
  • Some best practice
• Introduction to the ZODB (by Michel Pelletier)
  • A Simple Example
  • Detecting Changes
  • Persistent Classes
  • Mutable Attributes
  • A Complete Example
  • Conclusion
• Advanced ZODB for Python Programmers
  • Persistent-Aware Types
  • Using BTrees
  • Not All Objects are Persistent
  • ZODB and Concurrency
  • Pluggable Storages
  • Resolving Conflicts
  • Transactions and Subtransactions
  • Conclusion
• Using zc.zodbdgc (fix PosKeyError’s)
  • Setup
  • Garbage collection
  • Packing
  • Reference analysis and POSKeyErrors

Other ZODB Resources

• ZODB/ZEO Programming Guide
• Jim Fulton’s Introduction to the Zope Object Database
• IBM developerWorks Example-driven ZODB
• Martin Faassen’s A misconception about the ZODB
• How To Love ZODB and Forget RDBMS
• ZODB wiki and Documentation page and Historical pages
• Very old ZODB wiki
• ZODB-dev mailing list and archive
• Administering Zope 2 - ZODB
• Add-on software for ZODB