| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | "Bob Zurek" <bob(dot)zurek(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Video storage in Postgres? |
| Date: | 2007-08-17 18:14:47 |
| Message-ID: | 200708171114.48712.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Bob,
> Anyone aware of companies using techniques in Postgres to store videos?
> My understanding from talking to a bunch of online video companies is
> that they typically store the links in the DBMS that points to the video
> file to a file system. Thoughts? Most say they would love to store the
> video in the DBMS itself.
APC has a server room security/environment solution which stores up to 1TB
of annotated video frames in each PostgreSQL database. I know there's
another as well, but I can't remember it right now.
For most applications, it makes more sense to store video in the filesystem
and not in the DB. Also for *retrieval* of video, we have an issue; libpq
really needs a way to retrive large data 1MB at a time and not wait for
the whole field/row.
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--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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