Understanding Meridian data

Meridian stores information about the documents in a vault (metadata) in a database (Hypertrieve, SQL Server, or Oracle). The actual documents in a vault are stored in a secure folder structure that is completely managed by Meridian. This folder structure is called streams data, and is invisible to users and applications; it can be accessed only by the AutoManager EDM Server service. This service makes the files accessible for users and applications depending on the users’ security privileges and the documents’ workflow and revision status.

The vault database can be accessed only by Meridian and may be located on the same server as the AutoManager EDM Server service (using Hypertrieve) or on another server (using SQL Server and Oracle). The streams data can be located on the Meridian application server (the default), or on a file server or other storage device accessible by Windows via a URL. Meridian can be installed on a FAT or an NTFS file system. NTFS is the best choice because it can deal with large disk space and disk fragmentation better.