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Interesting that it's built on ZODB. For those that aren't familiar, in essence ZODB gives your Python application a 'magic dictionary' which automatically pers

Interesting that it's built on ZODB. For those that aren't familiar, in essence ZODB gives your Python application a 'magic dictionary' which automatically persists any keys written to it. It was probably my ignorance, but while I thought the concept was interesting I ultimately abandoned using it since I couldn't find any out-of-band way of inspecting saved data. Eg, sometimes you want to run some ad hoc SQL to see what is stored in a relational database but the only way to access data in ZODB (AFAICT) is within the application itself. It looks like ZeroDB abstracts away these issues, luckily. Is it intended to be a full-scale application data store, or something more specialized like a secrets store?

michwill 12y ago
You're right, good that someone is familiar with ZODB! We plan to make it a full-scale database. For that, we obviously require to have some convenient query language (similar or even compatible with Mongo's). We've talked to original developers of ZODB and they (independently) suggested that having a language-independent query language is something they constantly thought of :-) In fact, it seems like many of them dream to take ZODB (or a db based on it ;-) where Mongo is now.