RSS Web feeds: in file system or the database?

This is a discussion on RSS Web feeds: in file system or the database? within the XML SOAP forums in Framework and Interface Programming category; Can we revisit what may be an old topic? I don't see it mentioned much at this point in time so what methodology has been learned to store and work with web feeds? Searching the web turns up way too many documents that discuss way too many approaches much of it is apparently old so I have no idea which method to use at this point in time and sit here stalling and confused. The objective is to provide a service which generates the feeds and aggregates many (thousands perhaps) and of course at some point the need to make ...