Tod Harter writes: > > What would be the performance considerations? Considering it theoretically if > I (for instance) set things up so that I had an ftp server for the images and > stored filenames in a column then as far as raw data transfer efficiency its > tcp either way. I guess the question becomes one of how does the database > deal with blobs internally? Given that the data is images its essentially > opaque data to the RDBMS (ie there would never be any reason to search the > blob columns themselves, just recover them based on searches of other > indexes). > > I guess the other related question with indexes is how big a deal is it to > have such huge indexes? In a practical sense its one data set, so I really > would like to have indexes covering the whole thing. The number of records > runs up into the low millions. Queries will need to be done on maybe up to 4 > or 5 columns in that data set. Can I expect a query like that to complete in > a time frame of under 1 minute? What kind of hardware would be recommended to > get that sort of performance? We will be building out the entire system, so > essentially its up to us to define that. I'd considered something in the > order of a top of the line dual processor Pentium 4 class system with a > couple of SAN boxes and fibre channel. I expect its no challenge to throw a > few gigs of ram at it, but naturally there is NO way to put enough ram in a > box to even come close to holding complete indexes... >
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