MySQL vs File Databases

Question

So I'm going to be working on a home made blog system in PHP and I was wondering which way of storing data is the fastest. I could go in the MySQL direction, or I could go with my own little way of doing it which is storing all of the information (encoded in JSON) in files.

Which way would be the fastest, MySQL or JSON files?

Answer 1

For a small, single user 'database', a file system would likely be quicker - as the size and complexity grows, a database server like MySQL or SQL Server is hard to beat.