Flavio Stutz wrote:
Your points are good and valid.
When I listed advantages in using a DB I was really thinking about
my case: an heterogeneous and large portal.
When you have to manage only a Wiki server, the file system strategy
is surely a good solution because of its simplicity. But when you
are dealing with hundreds of applications running on clusters, the
administration is much easier if you have less elements to manage.
In this case, the DB backup and recovery is done for the entire
enterprise. You don't have to use different methods of recovery and
monitoring for the applications "Wiki" and "Customer Relationship"
(for example). The simplification even shortens the learning curve
of operations personel.
I agree with you that we have always to look forward to simplicity,
and don't use a resource just because it's cool.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
-- Albert Einstein
I think we're very much in agreement, but I'll just re-emphasize one
point since it's been an issue in the past in my own experience,
which is that when installing JSPWiki on a cluster I've not actually
found a solution to multiple WikiEngines writing to one provider,
file or otherwise. It seems very much a synchronization problem, and
I'm curious if anyone on the list has a good solution as this becomes
a scaling issue. I don't know how Wikipedia (MediaWiki) does it, but
obviously they do. No one server could possibly handle that kind of
traffic (which is either a dream or a nightmare, depending on one's
perspective).
Cheers,
Murray
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