John Meyer wrote:
Hi, I've got a client that I'm trying to convince to store the file path in
the database rather than the file itself into the database. Is there any
statistical data to show how much of a hit you take doing it as a BLOB vs. a
filepath?
Assuming MySQL is equally efficient to your filesystem at storing the
file, and your filesystem is as efficient as MySQL at finding the file
(use ReiserFS), then the issue comes down to maintainability and
usability. In most cases, the files I want to store are easily
accessible (NFS / SFTP / local), so machine name and/or filepath is
sufficient for me and I don't have to maintain that data in the MySQL
table space. On top of that, you don't have to worry about hitting
maximum table sizes (in MyISAM tables) as quickly either and your files
are still easily accessible from non-MySQL aware programs.
--
Michael T. Babcock
C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd.
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock
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