September 6 at 10:12 am
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"Chris, thank you for e-mailing me, and I would like to thank you for stopping by ChangeForge. I greatly appreciate your question. First, let me qualify that I am not a database engineer or DBA. That aside, I work in a position whereby I have been exposed to a small number of CMS/DMS solutions to include some big names like EMC (Legato) Application xTender, and some smaller ones you probably have never heard of. So here's my take: We have 2 differing formats for CMS/DMS prentations: 1) the unstructured and "crawl the sprawl" route (e.g. Google), and 2) the highly structured route as in traditional CMS/DMS offerings. I am focused more on the latter, just to clarify. Traditionally, metadata is stored within a structured format to increase the transactional return of information - and to increase overall transaction speed and efficency. You even see this in Business Intelligence (BI) software where they are cubing data to help increase the return of large volumes of information. However,..." - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart