The Large Objects Management Option extends the capabilities of Sybase IQ Enterprise Edition to allow storage and retrieval of Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) and Character Large Objects (CLOBs) within the Sybase IQ data repository.
Users must be specifically licensed to use the Large Objects Management functionality described in this product documentation.
As data volumes continue to increase, the need to store Large Object (LOB) data in a relational database also increases. LOB data may be either:
unstructured, in which case the database simply stores and retrieves the data
structured (for example, text) in which case the database understands the data structure and provides supporting functions (for example, string functions)
Typical LOB data sources are images, maps, documents (for example, PDF), audio, video, and XML. Sizes of an individual LOB may extend into gigabytes (GB), terabytes (TB), or even petabytes (PB).
