Large object data types (LOBs) are used to store large and unstructured data, such as text, images, video, and spatial data. Large object data types include BLOB and CLOB.
Applicability
This topic applies only to OceanBase Database Enterprise Edition. OceanBase Database Community Edition does not support this feature.
BLOB
Used to store large binary objects in the database. It can be considered as a bit stream without character set semantics, such as images and videos.
CLOB
Used to store single-byte and multibyte character data. It supports fixed-width and variable-width character sets, both of which use the database character set.
For more information, see Large object data types.
