What is the best way to store media content for a website in a database or file system?

Question

Database

Tell me, how best to store large amounts of files in the database or in the file system?
Basic requirements for the problem being solved, quick search through files.
How do social networks (instagram, fb, vk) do it?
Thank you.

Answer 1

But who was the first to think of storing files in a database? I would cut my hands off for this. Even if you need to quickly search for something in the content of a file, there is no point in storing the entire file in the database.