[DB-SIG] Best format to store web data?

Jim Fulton jim@digicool.com
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 07:35:14 -0400


Gerrit Holl wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> I've got some websites (not too big), and now I'm building a script to generate
> the news.
> 
> What is the best data format to store the news in? I've got about 2 news items
> a day, and every newsitem is about 400 characters text, and a "user", "date",
> "headline". I store this in s dictonairy and than cPickle it, is that the
> best way, or is mysql easier and faster?

The object database used by Zope would be a good choice.  You might also
consider Zope itself. See www.zope.org.

Jim

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