ZeroDB [“end-to-end encrypted database”] is Open Source

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8 pointsdahjelle3 comments

So ZeroDB is a fork of Zope's ZODB! I had watched a ZeroDB fintech pitch on youtube a few weeks back and had no idea. I can understand the USP: cloud DB hosting for sensitive data. Even though I'm a long time Pythonista I can't help wondering about the performance implications. IIRC ZODB did have some C optimisations last time I looked at the code, which was back in 2001/2 (yikes!)

Heh, yeah.ZODB seems to be pretty good for the purpose here (it's performance is usually not the bottleneck).

But when indexing large texts, it becomes a problem. One way to solve it is instead of using generic serializing for data structures, take real structure into account. Many isinstance() calls cause the CPU bottleneck [http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za/Members/roche/where-im-calli...]. Though, it turns out to be not as bad [http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za/Members/roche/where-im-calli...]

In fact, soon we want to switch away from Python pickles (which also could have security problems) into serializing to msgpack. And that makes everything much better in terms of cross-language compatibility.

So, things people dreamed about inside ZODB, pretty much :-)

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