MARC
Koha stores most of the bibliographic data as MARC21 in a text blob field
This makes the DB schema rather easy, but querying can be a bit cumbersome
Which is why they use external search engines (ElasticSearch, Zebra) for most searches
Koha stores most of the bibliographic data as MARC21 in a text blob field
This makes the DB schema rather easy, but querying can be a bit cumbersome
Which is why they use external search engines (ElasticSearch, Zebra) for most searches