Storage paradigms

Storage paradigms are how your data is represented in the system. How your users interact with it. How they find content.

There are two major storage paradigms; Relational and Hierarchical. Let's take a look at these one by one.

Relational

This is your conventional database like SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL. Tables can refer to values from other tables like a customers table and table of their orders.

This is what Content Server Store is like. Don't expect the values to "propagate from the parent", that's something the other storage paradigm would do.

Hierarchical

This is what a typical file system is like. Remember Windows Explorer... This goes back to our discussion of virtual folders earlier in this chapter.

Just remember that hierarchy in Content Server is virtual. This will help you a lot when planning metadata and permissions.