I am creating application in which I would have database which users can´t edit. It just have data and it shows to user. I found that I dont have to use localstorage I just can add database to project and it is readonly. So I did it and everything is ok. Now I want to add images to my app and I am not sure what is better way. I can every image add to folder, in database store path to image and It´s very easy and It can do now. Or I found that I can store image in database as image (byte[]). What is better? Would be images in database smaller? Would be loading of images faster? If images in database is better solution have can I easy way add images to my existing database? Is there any article to do this in winforms? Thanks
Edit: I'm glad that my question has so many answers and opinions. I want to explain more my needs. My application should have about 150 pictures and picture should be sized 150px and 100px. I want to app would work without internet connection. It could connect for updates but that´s all. Again thanks for all opinions :)
Generally databases are best for data and the file system is best for files. It depends what you're planning to do with the image though. If you're storing images for a web page then it's best to store them as a file on the server. The web server will very quickly find an image file and send it to a visitor.
Storing images in a database table is not recommended. There are too many disadvantages to this approach. Storing the image data in the table requires the database server to process and traffic huge amounts of data that could be better spent on processing it is best suited to.
Answers. Hi, These two ways are both ok. My suggestion is to store images into sql database if there are no much more images, otherwise, it's better store them into file system because you can store them no matter how many there are.
For our application, we found a hybrid approach worked best. We configured our SQL environment to support FILESTREAM and then imported all of our images. That gives us the flexibility of having the images 'in sql' while still storing the actual images to disk. Its a fast solution that may work well for you, too.
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