Let discuss Sustainable Software Engineering, MongoDB GridFS V.S File Server (SAMBA)

@Ke_Wei_Tan If you’re relying on Samba when you have GridFS you’re wasting resources…

If you’re trying to sell GridFS via MongoDB, going by your points in order:

  • You don’t need to use other services or servers when it’s all self-contained in MongoDBs GridFS. This means there’s a lot less power needing to be used vs making other fileserver like Samba.

  • It connects to all MongoDB infrastructure organically, meaning you don’t need to be concerned about additional SDN or other networking solutions to implement.

  • Access to data and speed of data being already able to store large files etc, this makes it very efficient organically.

  • Authorization and authentication control integrations, as well as at rest encryptions paired with in transit encryptions all come together by default, so there’s a lot less work involved securing data going to and from, and in GridFS.

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