Use MongoDB GridFS store images and images stored directly on disk What are the advantages?
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- Main advantage in my opinion is easy files distribution across multiple servers when system start growing (sharding, replication).
- Easy improvement reads/writes speed.
- No need to care where to put new file.
- Files systems become slow with big amount of small files.

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Are the advantages applicable to normal BSON documents too?. I want to store images which are less than 16Mb in database? Thanks in advance – Nux May 18 '19 at 09:07