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Asked: 2026-05-14T18:36:02+00:00

I want to create a small document management system. There are several users who

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I want to create a small document management system. There are several users who store their files. Each file which is uploaded contains info about which user uploaded it and the document content itself.
In a view all files of ONE specific user will be displayed, ordered by date.

What would be better:

  1. giving the documents a name or metadata (XML) which contain the date and user (and iterate through them to get the metadata) or…

  2. giving the files a random/unique name and store metadata in a DB? something like this:

    date | user | filename

What would you say and why?
The used programming language is Java and the DB is MySQL.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would choose the DB. DB’s are faster, safer (you don’t by accident delete important files) and easier. Also, this is the purpose of a DB: managing large a mounts of data. Filesystems are for storing files.

    But the choise is of course to you.

    But I guarantee: (DB > XML) == true in performance, and (DB >= XML) == false in filesize!

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