A comparative benchmark of large objects in relational databases
Sorin Stancu-Mara, Peter Baumann · 2008
Originally Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) in databases were conceived as a means to capture any large data (whatever large meant at the time of writing) which, for whatever reason, cannot or should not be modeled relationally. Today we find images, movies, XML, formatted documents, and many more data types stored in database BLOBs. A particular challenge obviously is moving such large units of data as fast as possible, hence performance benchmarks are of interest.