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Posted by cbmeeks on 06/12/07 15:28
> First of all, you should be asking this in a database newsgroup, not a
> PHP one. And preferably a newsgroup aimed at the database you're using.
Well, that's assuming I would only use MySQL and not PHP to serve my
files. :-)
> I store pictures in databases. It works quite well. Takes some tuning,
> but I find it provides good performance.
Yeah, I'm not surprised you replied. I have been reading some of your
posts about images in db's. You really have me thinking about images
in db's. I have to admit, I am walking on top of the fence and could
jump to either side when it comes to file system/db for storing
images. I agree with your postings about actually doing it instead of
quoting theories.
Scalability is very important but it's not the only thing.
Portability is also important. I am thinking of using Amazon's S3
(which I believe is a flat file system). But the bad thing about
using Amazon is that I put all of my eggs in one basket. They just
recently had a price change that made a lot of people happy but not
all...point is, they did that because they can.
I would love to be the fly on the wall at Amazon, eBay, Google, etc
and see how they store images. I know Google has their BigTable.
I guess I should follow by example. SmugMug uses their own internal
system that is helped along with S3. But I have no idea of how much
they serve from S3 or if they just use S3 as a backup.
Oh well, sorry for the rambling.
cbmeeks
http://www.eblarg.com
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