Re: real-world experience with Oracle doc storage, intermedia etc.

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> writes:

>>I pointed out Oracle's capability of storing blobs and clobs
>>etc. and to my surprise, the People in Power were enthusiastic about
>>it.
 

>But if you really want to convince them ... all of the high volume
>internet porn sites use Oracle.

How do you know?

Do you mean that the sites store images as BLOBs and serve them via http straight from Oracle? This could certainly work, and could perform acceptably, but I don't see it outperforming a plain old web server and file system. I'd assume that transactional updates to BLOB data are not particularly required.

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Ed Avis <ed_at_membled.com>