django store image in database

Question

Does anyone know if there's an out-of-the box way of storing images directly in the database vs. using ImageField model type that simply uploads it to the MEDIA_ROOT. And if there is, how does one serve those images then?

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Answer 1

No, there isn't. And for good reason. It's horribly inefficient to store and serve images from the database. Store them on the filesystem, and serve them directly from Apache.