Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Competing editorial systems

Author:Tommy Sundström
Posted:6/1/1999; 3:34:21 PM
Topic:Editorial Systems for Websites
Msg #:6936 (In response to 6904)
Prev/Next:6935 / 6937

I have some experience working with Galactica (http://www.cma.se/comedia/galactica/), a Oracle-based system with some content management applications.

While superior to Frontier in some aspects (security, micro-mangement of users, integration with Oracle stored data, 7-24-stability, scalability), my experience makes me doubt that relational databases are a good foundation for content management.

  1. Building/adapting anything outside what comes in the box, often gets realy time consuming and expensive.
  2. They often store pages as blobs, and have litle or no knowledge off the content.
  3. The matrix-table structure that data is stored in, is quite unlike the tree structure that we often see on the web. It can be mapped in, but this adds an layer of complexity.

P.S. I would count Notes as one of the competitors. It's a nightmare, but a nightmare that delivers. And I would not be surprised if someone soon builds a killer system on the excellent Zope foundation.

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