Using a Filesystem (Not a Database!) for Schemaless Data - Best Practices

Question

After reading over my other question, Using a Relational Database for Schema-Less Data, I began to wonder if a filesystem is more appropriate than a relational database for stor

Answer 1

One thing you may want to take into consideration is Oracle's BFILE datatype, which is a pointer to a file on disk. Perhaps that might be the best of both worlds? Microsoft SQL server doesn't seem to offer this capability.