One thing Tony's observation makes me wonder about are installation instructions for rolling out a large production instance of a Sling application. For large environments it seems like you'd need to swap to using PostGre, MySQL, Oracle or something else? I'm just wondering how scalable the defaults are outside of running a small Sling node.
-Steve ( Also, I haven't spent a lot of time reading the install docs, so maybe there are instructions for large scale Sling installations, I'm just tagging along from the previous comments. :p ) > In general you aren't going to find a discussion in the Sling architecture > of databases, in essence because the underlying JCR repository abstracts > from Sling the actual persistence mechanism. > > The sling launchpad application includes everything you need to run the > application, there is no required external database, JackRabbit embeds a > Persistence Manager that stores everything to your local file system. > Check out the JackRabbit wiki for more information > http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/PersistenceManagerFAQ#Available_Implementations. > > --- On Thu, 5/6/10, Tony Giaccone <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Tony Giaccone <[email protected]> > Subject: A little confused.. > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 2:25 PM > > > > I'm trying to understand the differences between sling and jackrabbit. I > understand that Jackrabbit is the underlying content repository that sling > uses. > > As I read through the jackrabbit wiki, it seems clear that there's a > database behind jackrabbit, that holds information about the documents > that are being stored in the repository. > > However, as I read through the sling docs, there's not much that discusses > the need for this database, is the because the sling distribution assumes > there is a jackrabbit server installed somewhere and that part of the > configuration of sling is to connect it to a JSR 170 Repository? > > Or is sling using some other kind of persistent store to hold document > information? > > > > Tony > > >
