Storing blobs in a DB is nearly always a bad idea. The only reason I can ever think to do it would be if you had some insane business constraints which for some

Storing blobs in a DB is nearly always a bad idea. The only reason I can ever think to do it would be if you had some insane business constraints which for some reason made it the least bad option. Even though most RDBMS support the blob type, they are absolutely not optimised for handling it. Blob access is always going to be slower through a DB, blob I/O will take resources away from the rest of your app, due to concurrency control your DB is always going to be a bottleneck and is always going to be difficult to horizontally scale, it will also slow down your backups, and running backups eats into your DB performance again, so you want to make them as efficient as possible. Due to the sophistication of object storage solutions these days (which infinitely scale horizontally), you don’t even need to deal with the pain of the filesystem to avoid using blobs.