The Content Data Store is a relational database or a local file system (or in a custom storage media).
Content Delivery offers the following storage options for published content:
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File system storage
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You can store published content on the local file system—the hard disk of the Presentation Server or a network-accessible hard disk. In this case, no additional installation is required.
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However, if you use the local file system as your Content Data Store, you restrict the functionality of SDL Tridion as follows:
- You cannot query and filter published pieces of content to dynamically create a Web page. For example, you cannot create a Web page that dynamically retrieves, for example, the last 5 news items created.
- You cannot use Profiling & Personalization. Profiling & Personalization allows you to track which content users see, and to use that information to present specific users with personalized content.
- You cannot use taxonomies to implement intelligent navigation in your Web sites or to retrieve content relations.
- You cannot use Outbound E-mail and Audience Manager functionality
- You cannot use UGC (User Generated Content) functionality
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Database storage
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You can store published content in a relational database, in which case you need to create the Content Data Store database on one of the following database servers:
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
- IBM DB2
Note: You can create the Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases on Windows using a PowerShell script (recommended), or manually.