[daisy] Content in directory structure

[Aaron.Digulla at Globus.ch]

daisy-bounces at lists.cocoondev.org schrieb am 06.10.2006 18:49:05:

> Hi,
> 
> This question might be obvious; please excuse my weak informatics
> theory background.
> 
> Why does the repository server store content in a directory structure?
> Why doesn't it use the database?

Databases are optimized to search data, not to store it.

Filesystems, OTOH, are optimized to store insanely large amounts of data 
but they are poor at searching.

Not to mention that filesystems have little to no bugs, backups are 
well-understood and stable and, unlike databases, most people can 
understand what is going on. :-)

Therefore, Daisy stores the searchable data (names, indexes, fields) in 
the database and the large attachments in the filesystem.

Regards,

-- 
Aaron Digulla