Am 11.04.2014 um 11:29 schrieb Stephan Eggermont <step...@stack.nl>:
> Roberto wrote: >> What about storing and retrieving documents that exceed the Mongo document >> size limit? :) > > Pushing large documents through MongoDB might be a pretty bad idea. > I don’t find enough google search results to > mongodb "zero-copy” > and there are no claims that GridFS is fast on the website, only easy. > You might get much better results using a distributed files system (mogilefs?) > Handling large documents in a distributed environment is always pain. But there is no choice if you need it. I’m not sure how bad GridFS is. On the other hand not one distributed filesystem I encountered in my career was close to be usable. I don’t know MogileFs! But it is implemented in perl, so are you serious about it? :) Norbert
