alt Hacker NewsI like the idea of combining the file system and the database. It's really useful when people don’t want to manage files and structured data separately.
I like the idea of combining the file system and the database. It's really useful when people don’t want to manage files and structured data separately.
The "throw everything in Postgres" angle ignores how bad most DBs are at large-object lifecycle ops like bulk deletion, partial reads, and massive tree renames. Put a million big blobs in there and backup, restore, and replication get ugly.
People also skip over fast atomic moves and concurrent edits across deep hierarchies, which is exactly where a file system earns its keep instead of pretending SQL is a universal storage layer. If uptime and ops sanity matter, you usually bolt one on anyway.