I think that was a feature Oracle was pimping in the late nineties already. These days most databases can store blobs and if they can't you can just store thing

I think that was a feature Oracle was pimping in the late nineties already. These days most databases can store blobs and if they can't you can just store things in base64 encoded form in a clob. So, this is nothing new. Nice of course if you need it but probably a bad idea to use at scale as there are cheaper ways to do that that don't involve hammering your database with requests. It's not particularly hard to make that perform well of course but why bother? I suppose transactional behavior could be nice for mutations. But beyond that, I don't see a good reason to do that.