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Many people say that DBs are not good for large blobs, hence the advice to put large files such as images in the files system, not in the database. What's diffe
by jtseng 12y ago
Many people say that DBs are not good for large blobs, hence the advice to put large files such as images in the files system, not in the database. What's different here that makes it acceptable to put files in the database?
- eighthave 12y agolibsqlfs is a filesystem, so it stores blocks of data that are indexed. A file is then stored as references to the relevant blocks. SQL databases work fine with 8k blobs, like we use for libsqlfs in IOCipher.