ZODB has served the Zope and Plone community for over two decades. But its storage model — opaque pickle blobs and BTree-based catalog indexes — hasn't aged well. You can't query your data with SQL. You can't inspect object state without unpickling. And the catalog is a black box that lives inside the very database it indexes.
Time to change that. Four modules, one mission — get ZODB out of the pickle jar.
https://community.plone.org/t/zodb-out-of-the-pickle-jar/22832

ZODB out of the pickle jar
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away It is a period of agentic coding in the FOSS galaxy. Chats with AI are abused to produce flooding AI slop. Striking from a cluster of senior developers hidden between the billion slop-coders of the big corp, agentic craftsmen of the FOSS community won the first victory in a battle with the powerful floodings of the outside fleet of coders. The big corp fears that another contribution could bring a thousand more free software projects into the agentic ...





