Should I Store My Data in a Database Or Should I Just Store the PDF?

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Should I store my data in a database or should I just store the PDF documents, that I will eventually create, on the server?

Being performance engineer I can tell that storing multiple files within database (probably as blob data type) will slow down DB performance. Even from 1st day (1st file) you're adding extra layers to data transition i.e. instead of throwing it from web server to the client, there will be overhead of request from web server to app server, to db server and then response from db to app and then app to web. I'm assuming you're having 3 tier application. If you add more layers, the performance lag will be more. Why would you like to keep them on db erver anyway?

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I thought you were using this as database for storing log files. I can't imagine anyone wanting to keep it there anyway. There are always things to do but it's better to split files to keep things compact. Asking “what would happen if I put this into the database?” is like asking “What would happen if you take my leg and put it in a sock”. The answer should be obvious. You can have multiple users accessing db simultaneously. But the point is, you don't have “multiple users”. You can have “multiple users” via OAuth, or using different OAuth scopes, or setting authentication parameters — but the point is, you don't have “multiple users”. There are 2 major categories of applications: the ones which have their own databases which is how most of our application uses database. The other is the.