Database VS Files

[Anon]

1) Storing data into files directly
2) Storing data into MySQL

which option is faster? in what circumstances?

Thanks in advance

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It depends on what data, how much data, and what you want to do with the data.
If you have a telephone directory that you want to search in, you can't beat a database.

If you have a library of images, it's much faster to store the image in files.