原文地址: https://www.drupal.org/node/2143501

原文版本: May 9, 2014.

Configuration entities using the new entity API in Drupal 8 in order to keep configuration into the DB. The difference between the config entities to content entites:

1. Configurable entity can be exported using the new CMI system.
2. Configurable entity don't have field due to the way they stored in the DB
3. Configurable entity defined a schema file unlike content entities which defined by hook_schema()