Can you stream video from GridFS (MongoDB filesystem)?

Question

Can you tell a streaming server such as Ngix to stream videos stored in GridFS? If yes, does it affect perfs?

Answer 1

Found my anwser on coffeepowered (Web Archive). To summarize the excellent post of Chris Heald:

• You can do so by using either gridfs-fuse or 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.