> I think it's rarely a good idea to store blobs of any kind in the database. Stop right there. There are plenty of examples for storing blobs in a datastore

> I think it's rarely a good idea to store blobs of any kind in the database. Stop right there. There are plenty of examples for storing blobs in a datastore - images and videos are 2 prime examples. I think what you should say is in a SQL database. Google's AppEngine with their datastore makes it dead easy and with high performance to store&retrieve things like images and videos.