Storing data in a storage is not like storing data in a database. A storage file does not enforce any particular data organization; you can organize each storage any way you want. You can design a hierarchical system with nested storages, or you can simply put several substorages at the root level of a storage file to keep them together for easy deployment and backup. The storages in a single file can be from the different OLE server applications.
If your DBMS does not support a blob datatype or if your database administrator does not want large blob objects in a database log, you can use storages as an alternative way of storing OLE data.
It is up to you to keep track of the structure of a storage. You can write a stream at the root level that lists the member names of the storages and streams in a storage file. You can also write streams that contain labels or database keys as a way of documenting the storage.
