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MySQL Conference Liveblogging: Introduction To The BLOB Streaming Project (Wednesday 3:00PM)


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on April 16th, 2008 in Databases

  • Paul McCullagh presents
  • BLOB
  • invented by Jim Starkey
  • Basic Large OBject
  • Binary Large OBject
  • photos, films, mp4 files, pdfs, etc
  • how MySQL handles BLOBs
    • mysql client send buffer -> receive buffer on the server (max_allowed_packet)
    • streaming a BLOB
    • continuous data stream
    • stream BLOB data directly in and out of the database
    • store BLOBs of any size (>4GB) in the database
    • create a scalable back-end that

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