Re: LONG RAW versus BLOB performance

Mark,

Have you also considered the API to each?

PL/SQL or Java can be used with LOBS. LONG RAWS of greater than 32K must be manipulated via a precompiler or OCI, not sure about Java.

Jared

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:04, Mark Richard wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been asked a question about the performance differences between LONG
> RAW columns and BLOB columns. The columns would be used to store images
> (probably JPG) so indexing of the column isn't an issue.
>
> I know of some of the implementation differences, such as an ability to
> place BLOB's in their own tablespace, the ability to have multiple BLOB's
> in the one table, etc, but know nothing about whether there is a real
> performance difference in terms of writing and reading.
>
> If you have any information on this, or any pointers to articles I would
> really appreciate them.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
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