Arghhh today I've discovered reading this bug report that specifying strings are RawStr() in strom, they are actually stored as blobs in sqlite3. The very bad side-effect is that string comparison does not work !!!
The right way to store strings with storm is to use the Unicode() data type instead and to wrap all your strings with the unicode function. If you need "utf-8", you can pass it as optional argument to it. Now string comparisons are 10 times faster !!!!!!!! Argggg
