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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
- 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 can handle any throughput and storage requirements. Wouldn't need to know in advance how big the database will get
- provide an open system that can be used by all engines
- provide extensions for BLOB streaming to existing MySQL clients