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I asked this question once and I think that you have to use the 
"attachments" to store files in the DB which indexes them on disk 
somehow and does not ruin DB performance.

You can check the wiki for it.

I hope that steers you in the right direction.

Thanks.


On 7/29/13 6:27 PM, Hank Knight wrote:
> For performance reasons, is it generally better to store files in
> CouchDB or to to store them at a fixed location and store the full
> path to the file in CouchDB?