Comparative study of storing unstructured data type between BasicFile and SecureFile in Oracle Database 12c

The nature of critical business information is changing rapidly and is no longer limited to structured text or numeric data. Unstructured content such as images, audio, video, PDF, Word documents and other types are becoming more and more common in various fields. Database is an area that has found extensive use of images and text in past few years. This paper present a model for storing unstructured data such as document in database using BasicFile and SecureFile method within Oracle 12c Database. The result, SecureFiles method is more efficient in using storage and faster then BasicFiles method.