How To Love ZODB and Forget RDBMS - Part VIII

1. Introduction
2. Creating/Opening a Stand-alone ZODB
3. Adding Data to a ZODB
4. Retrieving Data from a ZODB
5. Using the ZODB Tools to inspect the ZODB
6. Using the ZODB Tools to Backup and Recover the ZODB
7. Using Stand-alone ZEO to Allow Many Connections
8. Acknowledgements

Inspiration

This short little series of HowTo's has a dual source of inspiration:

The idea to write Parts V and VI came first (though they have yet to be written), after a conversation with Rob Page about people's hesitance to adopt ZODB in their projects. Relational databases have been around for a long time; we know how to back them up and restore them, how to troubleshoot them. Most people don't even know that there are tools available to them to do the same things with ZODB, much less how to use them.

The other parts of the tutorial were inspired by Casey Duncan during a conversation about ZODB and that "if only people knew how cool it was and how fast it is, everyone would use it!" He said that the community really needed a way to inform people that it's amazing and simple software.

Contributors

Special thanks to Tony Bollino who has a tender place in his heart for Newbies and their needs; I rewrote large chunks and added new stuff as a result of his concern. Thanks to Kapil Thangavelu for his incisive description of the table/record relationship in hurdling the object record set concepts.

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