Serving files out of GridFS
Very interesting results testing serving files using Apache, nginx and GridFS.
Solution Requests/sec % Apache FS % nginx FS % nginx GridFS % Apache Ruby FS via Apache 2625.37 100% 40.03% 242.22% 4,878.96% FS via nginx 6559.31 249.84% 100% 605.17% 12,189.76% GridFS via nginx module 1083.88 41.28% 16.52% 100% 2,014.27% Rails via Passanger 53.81 2.05% 0.82% 4.96% 100%
via: http://www.coffeepowered.net/2010/02/17/serving-files-out-of-gridfs/