S3 is not primary storage for the files, it's a distribution system.
We want to be able to switch form S3 to other CDN if required.
So, "Master" copies of files is kept on private server. Question is
should it be database of filesystem.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Massa, Harald Armin <chef@ghum.de> wrote:
>> No, I'm not storing RDBMS in S3. I didn't write that in my post.
>> S3 is used as CDN, only for downloading files.
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> So you are storing your files on S3 ?
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> Why should you store those files additionally in a PostgreSQL database?
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> If you want to keep track of them / remember metadata, hashes will do the
> job with much less memory.
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> Harald
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