Saving images or pdfs in db4o

Question

I know it is not a good thing to save files in a relational databas. But how about in a objectdatabase? Is it still a bad idea or are they more adapted for this kind of operations?

Answer 1

I've had some experience storing the images in a special blob field in db4o. It works reasonably well, looking at the db4o forums you could learn more about experiences. Some links:

• http://developer.db4o.com/forums/thread/48512.aspx
• http://developer.db4o.com/tags/Blob/default.aspx
• http://developer.db4o.com/forums/thread/30107.aspx

The blobs are stored in external files outside of the db4o yap file.