Note: I am not affiliated with this project in any way. I think it’s a very promising alternative to things like MinIO and deserves more attention.

  • GBU_28@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    5 months ago

    Thoughts on this vs postgres blob storage? I know they aren’t the same thing.

    • adr1an@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      5 months ago

      Buckets have a lot of features that postgres don’t. Like mounting via FUSE. And Garage in particular offers some integrations to apps, websited, and so on. I would go with this instead of having a column of byte data in a DB table. The pgsql solution might work in small and simple cases (e.g. storing the user’s avatar in a forum) but even so, if I could or had to choose, I wouldn’t do it.

      • GBU_28@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        5 months ago

        Great points.

        For isolated projects in the past I’ve had great success storing things in postgres,. (generally large documents that are relationally tied to other more traditional PG data, in a db driven project) Just saying size and recall have been pretty happy.

        As you say the other features are distinguishing.

    • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      5 months ago

      I’m always personally wary of storing blobs in a database if for no other reason it’s going to totally be more expensive to store on a server rather than in some sort of blob storage.