Re: Database vs FileSystem (a comparison)

Hi Jose!

How are things going with you? I have a free download on my site at www.robonerd.com about sizing with lobs that discusses the difference in external and internal lob storage. The biggest difference is that you can change certain types of internal lob, but you cannot change bfiles, they are read only. Performance wise it depends on what you want to do with them and, the efficiency of their storage area.

Mike Ault
TUSC www.tusc.com
ROBO Books International
www.robonerd.com

José Arango <arango_at_caribe.net> wrote in message news:<uo599gpa3bch16_at_corp.supernews.com>...
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm interested in learning the main differences between storing binary files
> (BLOB's) on a databae vs a filesystem. I would like to know the difference
> in many aspects: storage, security, performance, scalability etc.
>
> Can anyone point me to the right direction? any good site, whitepaper? I
> did a search on Google (both Web & Usenet archive) but unfortunately there
> isn't much out there.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> José
Received on Mon Sep 16 2002 - 11:51:30 CDT