https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/data/28568/varchar-vs-blobHi Experts, Currently I&#39;m working on an Enhancement Project where in the legacy Application we were using CLOB field to store comments. Since CLOB is not available in MariaDb as a dataType what would be the recommended datatype to use in New Systemen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/112229?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 04 May 2023 13:06:52 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:2c1f2699-1617-45ef-979f-e90c1af7a087GauravSingh<p>Thanks for your response Stefan, Currently we are using varchar(1000) and requirement is to get that updated to 10,000 char</p> <p>Also the we are using non-sync record for the comment search.</p> <p></p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Gaurav Singh</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/112227?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 04 May 2023 12:58:53 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:791e11ef-ecef-4bd8-b6b0-93b546b9365bStefan Helzle<p>VARCHAR is limited to 4000. And the overall index size for a row is limited to 16k. Use TEXT or LONGTEXT. The MariaDB documentation will guide you.</p> <p>Be aware that synced Records are limited to 4k as of now. This cannot be changed.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/112216?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 04 May 2023 11:28:49 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:857a2bdb-b57b-45e6-8f1c-5d172cc00d44Abhishek Singh<p>I would suggest to use LONGTEXT rather using VARCHAR or BLOB in this case </p><div style="clear:both;"></div>