[manigandham]

That's your call. If you're going to be storing 100gb of images then put them somewhere else, but this post is about using SQLite as a file format so storing binary files inside is not a problem.

[out_of_protocol]

Counterpoint: tiled maps, which are basically loads and loads of images, can be stored on disk as

- Direcory structure

- Zip file

- Tar file

- Sqlite db

Out of these, sqlite is the most compact, by far (also the fastest)

[fatboy]

We just transitioned our tiled images from using a directory structure to SQLite.

Having a single file per very large image (for mobile) makes transferring them to the phone over USB around ten times as fast. I wish I’d done it years ago.