Remote BLOB Storage (RBS):
- Configured per Content DB
- Better CAPEX for large scale deployments (>5 TB)
- Better OPEX for fault tolerance, backup/restore and geo-replication
- Requires SQL 2008 R2
- Unique identifier across the company
- Fully pluggable - can plug your own web service to generate your IDs
- Can move files around and always locate a file with its document number
- You can enable the Managed Metadata service and then publish a content type for syndication to other site collections or farms
- Basically the record routing from the Records Center has been unleashed for any library.
- Allows you to specify rules so that when files enter the drop-off folder (or library), rules are applied to route the file(s) or Document Set into the correct location
Scale:
- Compound index support
- Automatic index management
- Query throttling with fallback
- Scale targets: a million items per folder, tens of millions in a library, hundreds of millions in a large repository
- FAST search is used to retrieve content
- Performance much improved and few real limits. Indexes are generated
- Nice Ribbon UI to aid management at the document and library scope
