The term blob stands for Binary Large Object and is used for storing information in databases. It stores data in binary form and can be used for storing binary data such as images, audio video files. It can also be used to store serialized objects in binary form which can later be de-serialized and converted back to original programming objects. It allows big sized objects to get stored some ranging in gigabytes depending upon the database type.

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