Is storing files in database good idea?

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Reasons in favor of storing files in the database: Having the files and database in sync and able to participate in transactions can be very useful. Files go with the database and cannot be orphaned from it. Backups automatically include the file binaries. 1 нояб. 2016 г.

Is storing files in a database a bad idea?

Also, keep in mind that Web servers are cheap and you can easily add more to balance the load, whereas the database is the most expensive and hardest to scale part of a web architecture usually. There are some opposite examples (e.g., Microsoft Sharepoint), but usually, storing files in the database is not a good idea.

Should I store files in the database or file system?

Database provides a proper data recovery process while file system did not. In terms of security the database is more secure then the file system (usually). The migration process is very easy in File system just copy and paste into the target while for database this task is not as simple.

Is it possible to store files in database?

FILESTREAM has been introduced by Microsoft in 2008. The purpose was to store and manage unstructured files more effectively. Before FILESTREAM was introduced, the following approaches were used to store the data in SQL server: Unstructured files can be stored in the VARBINARY or IMAGE column of a SQL Server table.

Which database is good for storing files?

Notice that these days most DB (and RDBMS such as PostGreSQL or MySQL and non-SQL DBMS such as MongoDB) are storing their data in files (that is, using raw disk partitions for the storage of DB has become out of fashion).

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