Storing images in NoSQL stores

Question

Our application will be serving a large number of small, thumbnail-size images (about 6-12KB in size) through HTTP. I\'ve been asked to investigate whether using a NoSQL dat

Answer 1

I was looking for a similar solution for a personal project and came across Riak, which, to me, seems like an amazing solution to this problem. Basically, it distributes a specified number of copies of each file to the servers in the network. It is designed such that a server coming or going is no big deal. All the copies on a server that leaves are distributed amongst the others.

With the right configuration, Riak can deal with an entire datacenter crashing.

Oh, and it has commercial support available.