There's a whole discussioon there about what's the right tool for the job, but integration with Lucene would be my guess as to the practical reason. I'd be interested to learn if that, in fact, were not a constraint.
Cory Snavely University of Michigan Library IT Core Services On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 11:30 -0700, Ryan Ordway wrote: > Is there a reason why only the metadata is stored in the database and not > the actual assetstore bitstreams? Has anyone considered changing the > physical storage from the filesystem to the database? I'm working on > building some redundancy into my infrastructure and it's looking like the > most efficient way to store the assetstore data in clustered configurations > would be in the database, especially when your database is already clustered > across multiple systems. Your database gets much larger, but you don't have > to worry about keeping your assetstores synchronized, etc. > > Any thoughts? Anyone to blame? ;-) > > Ryan > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
