I was actually looking for a doc/html store that could be used to store frequent weekly updates where 1% of most files will change. This would result in 52 copies of each file a year. I think I will try Git or Subversion for now.
Thanks for the help, -Ryan On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Torgeir Veimo <[email protected]>wrote: > On 29 March 2011 21:42, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ryan Smith asked: > >> Does Jackrabbit save a whole new separate copy of the file with the > >> new changes in the DataStore, or are only the differences saved? > > > > Jackrabbit doesn't store deltas of changes, so a new copy is created if > even a single byte of a file has changed. The data store avoids creating new > copies during checkin only when the binary property is unmodified. > > If you need compact, versioned storage of large binary files, you can > roll your own versioning setup, and use a binary delta library. > > There's one alternative at http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaxdelta/ > (disclaimer: I've been involved in creating this library). > > -- > -Tor >
