1 Reply Latest reply on Apr 15, 2016 10:34 AM by rhauch

    ModeShape 5:Persistence Provider vs. Binary Store

    dimich

      I'm evaluatin ModeShape for a larger project coming up in my company.

       

      I would prefer using Database Persistence to have the option of horizontally scaling with a cluster of ModeShape nodes if needed later. As I understood Database Persistence will store binary data in BLOBs in the database table. What do I need the option of configuring a Binary Store for then? The documentation doesn't clarify this point.

        • 1. Re: ModeShape 5:Persistence Provider vs. Binary Store
          rhauch

          The database persistence will store the data for the repository in a relational database, storing each node as a single row. The node and its properties are serialized into a binary form using BSON, and this binary representation is stored in a BLOB column in the underlying database. While most property values are stored with the node, some property are too large to be included in the serialized BSON representation: doing so would increase the deserialization time. For example, most binary values are likely to be larger than the node's BSON representation, and so they are stored separately in the repository's binary store. Also, the repository can be configured so that string values larger than some threshold size are also stored as binary values in the binary store. (And because binary values are immutable, they are identified by the SHA-1 hash of the value; thus if the same content is stored on different nodes as a binary property, the binary store will actually only store one copy.)

           

          You need to configure both kinds of stores, but you certainly can use the same database for both.

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