[Helma-user] using built-in db

[Maksim Lin for technical support mailling lists]

> Git's file names are hashes (128- or 256-bit, I think, so 256 
> folders with effectively limitless # of files), so the 
> distribution over the first two digits will be approximately 

yes sorry I was trying to not get into too much detail about git's
implementation and ended up not even describing it accurately.

> random. Since helma's filenames are sequential, it makes more 
> sense to use the last two digits, giving you as even as 
> possible distribution between folders and no hard upper limit.

hah! yes much better plan! :-)

I'm actually working on a project currently that would benefit from
using the xml db too, but I have gone with an sql db because of worries
about things like performance (by dataset will be at least 70K to start
with and slowly growing from there) and handling things like
transactions correctly.
But I'm now thinking it may be worthwhile trying out the xbl db some
more and seeing how far I can get using it and maybe implementing some
improvements (like the multiple folders option) to get it good enough
for production use.

Maks.