Storing large file of 100 MB in Mongodb

Question

I want to store Large file of 100MB to 1GB in MongoDB just like BLOB object and later on can easier retrieve it. The programming language that i am using is PHP Please guide me

Answer 1

The maximum size of a document in MongoDB 1.8 and above is 16Mb.

Previously it was 4Mb. GridFS enables one to seamlessly spread a single file across many documents. If you inspect the actual documents in MongoDB you will notice many separate documents, but through GridFS they will seamlessly appear as a single file.

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Answer 2

You need to use GridFS for this as normally MongoDB documents are limited to 16MB. See the overview and examples in the PHP documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.mongogridfs.php