I’ve yet to look into storing files such as Word, Excel, etc. into MongoDB seriously and I want to know – am I able to store whole docx or excel files in MongoDB and then RETRIEVE them via querying?
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I’ve yet to look into storing files such as Word, Excel, etc. into MongoDB seriously and I want to know – am I able to store whole docx or excel files in MongoDB and then RETRIEVE them via querying?
Using gridfs yes.
Gridfs is a storage specification. It is not built into the DB but instead into the drivers.
You can find out more here: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/GridFS.
It’s normal implementation is to break down your big documents into smaller ones and store those aprts in a chunks collection mastered by a fs.files collection which you query for your files.