Chapter 7. Oracle SecureFiles
The fact that data is growing multifolds at a tremendous speed has led to the evolution of a number of data management trends and Big Data is one of them. A large amount of information from web content, sensors, documents, images, and location services has pushed organizations to place serious thought to data management strategies and distil out nuggets of information. The data can be structured, semi-structured, or unstructured.
In relational database terminology, unstructured data such as binary files or documents are classified as large objects. Oracle has been allowing users to store large objects in the tables of a relational database for a long time. While the large objects are prototyped as BLOB
or CLOB
in a table, there is a provision to store XML documents, spatial data and text using dedicated data types. In this chapter, we will focus on large object handling in the Oracle Database. You will understand how large objects or LOBs are stored...