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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Maggie on March 29, 2012, 06:30:28 pm

Title: eap vs dbms
Post by: Maggie on March 29, 2012, 06:30:28 pm

Hello
Up until now I have been using EA as a single user and have stored my models in an eap file.
My team is now set to grow to 3-4 users and I am wondering whether we should continue using eap files or should opt for a DBMS repository.
We have the corporate version of EA and use source control.

If anyone has any advice for me I would be grateful

Thanks

Maggie

Title: Re: eap vs dbms
Post by: RobCDeJong on March 29, 2012, 07:12:25 pm

You can work on the same EAP with multiple persons but this is not a scalable. Your team size (3-4 users) should however not have any problems.
 
This whitepaper gives a good overview of the posibilities:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/WhitePapers/Version_Control.pdf

My conclusion: if you have a team at one single location, a dbms is preferred.

Cheers,
Rob

Title: Re: eap vs dbms
Post by: Sunshine on March 30, 2012, 07:23:45 am

The EAP file is really just an MS Access Database so some kind of rough rules of thumb are go to a DBMS such as SQL Server or Oracle if
1) the EAP file exceeds 100MB
2) the number of concurrent users exceeds 7

These are rough figures so take them with a grain of salt.  
But you get the idea and order of magnitude  ;)

Hope that helps
 :)