[Glass] large blobs

[Dale Henrichs]

John,

You might ask your question on the gemstone mailing list ... most of the
commercial customers do not subscribe to the GLASS list and the commercial
guys are likely to have some experience there ... and they might be willing
to share:)

I assume you know that your blobs will be broken up into 16Kbyte pages for
storage on disk in GemStone so your i/o won't necessarily be as smooth as
sucking large contiguous chunks of bytes directly into the disk buffer ...
that may mean that there could be an advantage to chunking the data
yourself in page sized chucks and building a little infrastructure on top
so that you can randomly access chunks efficiently ... but I haven't
actually tried anything like this...

Dale

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:46 PM, John McIntosh <
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:

> I'm collecting thoughts on using gemstone to store large chunks of data
> (say JPGS).  Say 8 to 16MB in size. I have another case of blob data maybe
> upwards of 200MB but I'd store that in chunks just to enable better restart
> capabilities when pushing/pulling to a mobile device as that would need to
> restart a previously aborted transmission.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience with this?
>
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