I generally agree. One of the few good systems with binary content in a database is/was Oracle CM SDK (aka Oracle iFS, Oracle Files, Oracle Content DB, Oracle Universal Online Archive), recently licensed by Open Text [1].
Axel (I was kind of involved in development of an ECM system [2] on top of this before starting somethin completely new based on Neo4j.) [1] http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/185017 [2] http://www.inxire.com <http://www.inxire.com/> On 21.01.2011 00:08, kyle adams wrote: > 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? >>>>> >>>>> -- *Kyle * >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Neo4j mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Neo4j mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Neo4j mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> >> -- >> Axel Morgner >> Creative Solutions - Software Engineering >> GUI& UX Design - Project Management >> >> c/o inxire GmbH >> Hanauer Landstr. 293a >> 60314 Frankfurt >> Germany >> >> Phone +49 151 40522060 >> E-mail [email protected] >> Web http://www.morgner.de >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
