Using SQL Server as Image store

Question

Is SQL Server 2008 a good option to use as an image store for an e-commerce website? It would be used to store product images of various sizes and angles. A web server would

Answer 1

If the images are indexed then lookup won't be a big problem. I'm not sure but I don't think the lookup for file system is O(1), more like O(n) (I don't think the files are indexed by the file system).

What worries me in this setup is the size of the database, but if managed correctly that won't be a big problem, and a big advantage is that you have only one thing to backup (the database) and not worry about files on disk.