Content Delivery storage options

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:

File system storage
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.
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
Database storage
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