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> ... or a filesystem as a backing store first. File systems are far harder to use correctly compared to pretty much any database; suggestion: only use them fo
by throwawayish 10y ago
> ... or a filesystem as a backing store first.
File systems are far harder to use correctly compared to pretty much any database; suggestion: only use them for storing large blobs, and use collision-free names (eg. random UUIDv4). Many applications don't need that though.
- adw 10y agoSometimes you just have large blobs, though! (I'm thinking, for instance, of machine-learned models; big matrices are exactly the kind of thing we have HDF5 and friends for.)