Scalable Image Storage

Question

I\'m currently designing an architecture for a web-based application that should also provide some kind of image storage. Users will be able to upload photos as one of the k

Answer 1

As part of Cloudant, I don't want to push product.... but BigCouch solves this problem in my science application stack (physics -- nothing to do with Cloudant, and certainly nothing to do with profit!). It marries the simplicity of the CocuhDB design with the auto-sharding and scalability that is missing in single-server CouchDB. I generally use it to store a smaller number of big file (multi-GB) and a large number of small file (100MB or less). I was using S3 but the get costs actually start to add up for small files that are repeatedly accessed.