RE: Storing blobs in database vs filesystem
- From: "Kevin Closson" <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <fnmpa@xxxxxxx>, "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:31:57 -0700
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>>>This isn't responsive to the OP, but I was hoping you could
>>>help me understand what advantage you people saw in storing
>>>large volumes of blobs in the database at all.
I'll take a stab. Historically, there have not ben options for getting
multiple servers access to unstructured data (read CFS). So
at least with OPS and RAC, stuffing these, actually quite-unstructured,
pieces of data into the database at least got them accessible to
multiple nodes. Also, historically, there were no PL/SQL callouts
to get unstructured data. These 2 factors are now historical. You
can deal with external data nicely with 9i and moreover 10g and
CFS and NAS technology is not spooky anymore (well, I think it might be
to the open source folks).
The other force was the desire in the mid 90s for Sybase,Informix and
Oracle to be *the* repository for all data...there were musings
of OODB and RODB and all those things that never really got anywhere.
That is, Informix and Oracle wanted to be media servers in addition to
databases and that was at a point in history that predated the
web, really.
There are a lot of Oracle sites that blend the best of what Oracle
does and the best of what Oracle does to support external unstructured
data. Gannett Media comes to mind.
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