What is the best way to store avatars: base64 or files?

Question

MySQL

It is necessary to create a catalog of companies with the ability to upload a logo (avatars). Images will not be very large, about 10Kb. What is the best way to store images: as files or base64? What will consume less server resources?

Answer 1

Here is the extended answer.
In short: 1 - RAM consumption. 2 - a large number of requests. 3 - base increase.

Answer 2

Store in files. It takes less space than base64 and will be cached by the browser after the first download. And base64 will need to be constantly pulled from the base