How does Youtube store videos?

  • this question is purely out of curiosity..

    just thinking where does youtube store its videos..on a database..

    or some file folder location..

    on a bigger perspective...how does one store videos on SQL server database??

    thanks

    Pankaj

  • Hmm not sure about U-Tube, but you can store images and videos on SQL using Varbinary datatype and if you are using 2008 you can use streaming 🙂

  • After a cursory web search on the subject, mostly filled with results about YouTube videos that have the word "store" or "storage" in their title, I don't see anything specific readily available. But that was a very cursory search. The technical details section of their Wikipedia entry doesn't have anything to say about it.

    So, I don't know how they store stuff.

    My best guess is they store files and use a database to index and manage the files, but the files are not "in the database" directly.

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  • i am using SQL server 2005. how do i store videos and images(.jpg)

    on it?

  • you can use varbinary to store Images and Videos 🙂

  • Google is your friend: http://highscalability.com/youtube-architecture

    Regards,

    Jacob

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