Hello All, I have DB's with 5 Gb worth of images in them and I find the performance to be more than acceptable for my purpose which is storage and display. The images are in the 250K to 3 megabyte range in size. The benefit is that you have everything in one place so, moving things around is easy.
C Friday, March 20, 2009, 11:55:18 AM, you wrote: RS> Nuno wrote: >> Yeah, a religious question, i know, but what's recomended?... >> >> I have a small site that may have some images for some products. Said >> products may also have descriptions. I have other small sites and one >> where i'd like to manipulate large texts (say around 5 paragraphs... >> ~5000 characters). >> >> What's recomended: to store strings that are the /path/to/textfile or >> /to/image.jpg? Or to store the image file in the database? the text >> file in the database? Which datatypes to use? >> RS> This is a very good question, and you must ask it every time you consider RS> blobbing. It turns out that all things being equal, there is a size at RS> which blobs work better, and over which the file system is appropriate. RS> Here is a discussion paper: RS> http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=64525 RS> This paper was written some time ago (2006), and technology moves, CPUs, RS> networks and disk drives get faster, memory larger, and some operating RS> systems become more bloated. As various aspects which affect this high RS> water rule of thumb change, so must your confidence in the actual high RS> water mark number. RS> Because you are using (?) SQLite, a number of variables are different than RS> accessing a client/server database, but as it seems that you are going to RS> squeeze the data through a web server, other bottlenecks may apply. RS> Experimentation is recommended, but the real qualifier will come at RS> saturation point. RS> HTH, RS> Rob Sciuk RS> _______________________________________________ RS> sqlite-users mailing list RS> sqlite-users@sqlite.org RS> http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users -- Best regards, Teg mailto:t...@djii.com _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
