>Yes, it's a database. That's where you're meant to put DATA.
Most (all?) large-scale high-volume image storage architectures I'm aware of do not store billions of images as blobs in a database. Instead, they typically store the images as files. The database only holding metadata info and a pointer to the image filename location (or url if using AWS S3 or CDN).
E.g. Facebook is one of the largest MySQL sites (if not the largest) and they don't store photos directly in MySQL.
Most (all?) large-scale high-volume image storage architectures I'm aware of do not store billions of images as blobs in a database. Instead, they typically store the images as files. The database only holding metadata info and a pointer to the image filename location (or url if using AWS S3 or CDN).
E.g. Facebook is one of the largest MySQL sites (if not the largest) and they don't store photos directly in MySQL.