Hi Paul,
Paul Kling wrote:
I am currently working on a project that has the need to store 100
million images every year. We tend to keep the images for around 18
months. So at any one time we will have about 150 million images in the
repository. The question I have is does this sound reasonable to store
this quantity of images in JackRabbit or does this sound scary? I worry
about retrieval of the items.
it doesn't sound scary to me, though I have to admit that I never worked with a
repository of that size. I've seen repositories that contain around 10 million
nodes without any issues.
I also noticed there is a clustering feature but the documentation
seemed to point you to using the DB for file storage. We have been down
the route of letting the DB store file data in the past and it has never
turned out to be something that worked well and I don't think I can get
people convinced of again.
jackrabbit does not store the complete file in the database, it stores the
contents of a file in a data store [1]. the database will only contain a
reference into the data store.
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/DataStore
regards
marcel
