The LVARCHAR data type

Text documents inserted into columns of type LVARCHAR are stored in dbspaces, like data inserted into the standard SQL character data types such as CHAR and VARCHAR. This incurs less resource overhead than storing documents in sbspaces, which is where data in BLOB and CLOB columns are stored.

The disadvantage of storing documents in columns of type LVARCHAR is that the size of the documents is limited to 32 KB.