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Can you stream video from GridFS (MongoDB filesystem)?
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Can you tell a streaming server such as Ngix to stream videos stored in GridFS? If yes, does it affect perfs?
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Found my anwser on
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). To summarize the excellent post of Chris Heald:
You can do so by using either
gridfs-fuse
nginx-gridfs
You can expect it to be 6 times slower than when you are serving directly from the filesystem.
You should read his benchmark for more details.
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This article is about serving files, not specifically streaming.
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