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Firebird is faster than filesystem for blob storage!

September 2, 2008 mariuz One comment

To blob or not to blob… good question!

I guess if you develop data intensive applications dealing with large files at some point, you’ve thought about it at least once: should I put my data files inside the database or should I write them directly to disk?

Ok, so here’s my point:

storing files in Firebird is faster than writing the same files on the filesystem!

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