Bulk Load

[muthuvelan]

Hi,

I am new to Alfresco and trying to design a solution using Alfresco record management.

I would like to learn more about record ingestion process. My requirements needs bulk loading of records of various record types.

How does Alfresco supports bulk loading?

For e.g let's say I have a record type with customer number and date as meta data items. Say I get 100k records as pdf every day. I see two options

a)  Insert every record along sequentially by calling Alfresco insertion API
b)  Use the bulk load by creating a property file for each record. Is that right?

Are there any other process other than the above two.

Thanks.

[mjosborn85]

Your assumptions are correct. Bulk loading facility is available at http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-bulk-filesystem-import

It works reasonably well - just be careful not to load too many at once. It might have a memory leak, and if you throw an OutOfMemoryError at 95,000 of 100,000 records, well that stinks. You kind of have to wipe out the DB and storage and start over.