Byte Data in a Smart Large Object

You can use a smart large object to store very large amounts of byte data. The MI_LO_HANDLE data type holds a structure, called an LO handle, that identifies the location of smart-large-object data in a separate database partition, called an sbspace. For smart-large-object data that is byte data, use the SQL BLOB data type. The BLOB data type allows you to store varying-length byte data of up to four terabytes. The BLOB data type is a predefined opaque type (an opaque data type that Informix defines). For more information, see Using Smart Large Objects.