From: Warren Young
Date: March 21 2007 9:02pm
Subject: Re: dumping large binary file in database
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Dimitris Servis wrote:
> and as it turns out probably not a MySQL++ issue

You'd have exactly the same problem using the C API.

> best thing would be to store the whole table as a blob 

Oh, barf!  You're completely ceding the special benefits of a SQL 
database server if you do that.

If you just need network access, put the current binary file on a file 
share somewhere.  If that won't work for you, write a dedicated row 
access server -- think of a very lightweight, flat-file database here. 
You can do it in a few hundred lines of C.  Either way, you get rid of 
the MySQL overhead, you can still access rows directly, and it's 
maximally fast.

But, only do that if this is read-only.  Once you start writing to the 
file at the same time as other programs are reading, you'll just end up 
reinventing MySQL.  If you're in that situation, I'd just look at 
something more lightweight...Berkeley DB, or SQLite, for example.  Don't 
reinvent this wheel...this is a problem very nearly as old as computers 
themselves.