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I think you've got that backwards: if you have a database for something, is it worth the additional levels of abstraction to also store some data in files? If
by emn13 12y ago
I think you've got that backwards: if you have a database for something, is it worth the additional levels of abstraction to also store some data in files?
If your data is fairly small, and perf not the biggest issue (which is pretty common), you might as well go for the simplest solution, which is going to be purely DB or purely FS, not some mixture of the two.
- hobs 12y agoAgreed, the overhead of maintaining two solutions can be a huge burden (especially when troubleshooting something going wrong via the synthesis of two solutions), but I definitely called out "big ass files" because the difference between some text data and some smaller blob is almost nothing in terms of performance.