Re: CMS tutorials

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:37:15 -0500 
J Graham Zahoruiko <J> wrote:

> JC, An alternative is to storing files as BLOBS and content as text or
> XHTML/XML is to store files, images, etc. into the directory structure
> and the rest of the content into the RDBMS or a combination of both.
> I've seen this work perfectly well - while still keeping in mind the
> open architecture approach.

Right, using the RDBMS for meta data and the filesystem for bulk
storage.  It can work quite well, especially when you can re-generate
the meta-data from the filesystem images.  However for the data I
usually handle (eg email and other message frames), I find that external
custom stores such as NETNEWS-style systems ala inn2 are
faster/cheaper/lighter/more-effective.

As always YMWV depending on your data and loads, which is the point.  An
RDBMS is just one tool among many.

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