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I’m creating an application where users can edit their “files” for various purposes. Each user will have his / her own sandbox of files. The question is whether these files should actually exist on a drive or as long pieces of text in a MySQL DB?
Okay, based on my research, here’s what I found…
Based on these two articles mainly (and other research):
I think a DB would be better than a file system. The DB is optimized for fast reads and writes and is relational so lookups are QUICK. Space is cheap, so it growing fast isn’t a HUGE concern.