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Are there any STL containers that seem to be well-suited for using as BLOBs for database software? I would think a vector<char>, but is there something better? Maybe a std::string? Or some non-STL container?
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BLOBtype of databases allows storage of binary data, so you need an ordered collection of bytes. The easiest choice would be avector<>and you could choseunsigned charto represent a byte on most platforms