[asterisk-users] Retrieving sound files from DB as opposed to filesystem

[C F]

Just from my experience with different DBs, stay away from BLOB data
types as much as possible.

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:15 AM, A E [Gmail] <all.eforums at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
> Probably a silly question, but we're wondering if people have had any
> experience and have data to demonstrate if the performance of the Asterisk
> system might suffer in terms of latency etc. if we're to have it retrieve
> sound files from a database using odbc as opposed to storing them locally on
> the filesystem. Note, these are not prompts...these are sound files that are
> being created through a web-app and being stored in the DB as BLOB or
> similar datatype that's good/efficient to store audio/video files in a DB.
> We need these be made available through the asterisk system to play over the
> phone. Although the DB uses a SAN, the Asterisk System has no connectivity
> to the SAN but is connected on the same physical ethernet switch with a
> multi-Gbps backplane.
> The way the system is being designed, it's possible for us to end up with
> 000s of these sound files stored in the DB, not to mention several asterisk
> systems in a pool/cluster/farm requesting these files, so using the local
> filesystem might not be scalable or efficient.
> Any advice/comments/suggestions welcome :)
>
>
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