topic Alfresco content management repository in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-content-management-repository/m-p/4545#M632 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Perhaps a dumb question, but I couldn't find any specific documentation on this.&nbsp; It appears, to me, that Alfresco is storing content on the filesystem in an alfresco directory.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If so, what are the plans for supporting a repository that is based on a database, or some other cluster-compatable environment?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What application data is currently stored in the database?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:04:30 GMT dwichman 2005-10-13T01:04:30Z Alfresco content management repository https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-content-management-repository/m-p/4545#M632 Perhaps a dumb question, but I couldn't find any specific documentation on this.&nbsp; It appears, to me, that Alfresco is storing content on the filesystem in an alfresco directory.If so, what are the plans for supporting a repository that is based on a database, or some other cluster-compatable environ Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:04:30 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-content-management-repository/m-p/4545#M632 dwichman 2005-10-13T01:04:30Z Re: Alfresco content management repository https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-content-management-repository/m-p/4546#M633 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>There are three seperate but integrated storage areas:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- content store&nbsp; (file system)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- meta-data&nbsp; (database)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- index (lucene - file system)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>A core set of Alfresco services (known as the NodeService &amp; ContentService, plus some others) are responsible for storage read and write and also provide transactional support across all three storage areas.&nbsp; We've put considerable effort into ensuring that data is safe (Spring's transactional support has helped here).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We don't have concrete plans for supporting an all database storage scheme, however, it is possible to plug-in a different implementation of the above services.&nbsp; There are some capabilities such as random access which are not so easy to implement with a db.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We do have plans for cluster-compatible environments.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:36:10 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/alfresco-content-management-repository/m-p/4546#M633 davidc 2005-10-13T10:36:10Z