I would agree with the filesystem approach. Blob storage has always been a
scalability issue with SharePoint and is exactly the reason why vendors like
Alfresco choose to store metadata in the db and content on the filesystem.
Disk is cheap and its easier to leverage multi-tiered storage policies.

-Kyle

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Rick Bullotta <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Axel, are you storing the actual content in Neo or in the file system
> directly (or some other datastore)?  I've been told not to use Neo for
> blob/large text storage. Curious what approach you're taking.
>
> Best,
>
> Rick
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On
> Behalf Of Axel Morgner
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 3:15 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Neo4j] Neos4j and ECM
>
> The content tree can be made out of CHILD relationships, content items
> can be mapped to nodes of a certain type (e.g. folder, file, image,
> pages, etc.), content item properties like name, date and type-specific
> data could be mapped to node properties.
>
> File operations (add, move, copy, delete) alter relationships and
> create/delete nodes. Access control can be realized with the ACL pattern
> [1] as described in the Neo4j wiki).
>
> IMHO, every ECM use case can be easily modeled with a graph DB.
>
> Axel
>
> [1] http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/ACL
>
> Am 20.01.2011 20:50, schrieb kyle adams:
> > How would you translate a content model and the processes around that
> > content model to the graph DB design?
> > On Jan 20, 2011 2:46 PM, "Axel Morgner"<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >> Hi Kyle,
> >>
> >> currently I'm working on a ECM solution based on Neo4j which will be
> >> released as open source soon.
> >>
> >> Do you have any specific questions?
> >>
> >> Greetings
> >>
> >> Axel
> >>
> >> Am 20.01.2011 19:38, schrieb kyle adams:
> >>> Neos4j is very intriguing, but I'm not sure how it would fit into
> > existing
> >>> (or new for that matter) ECM use cases. Any ideas?
> >>>
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