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For a few tools, I find it necessary/helpful to store large numbers of medium-sized blobs (scraped HTML pages, JSON text, the like). I am currently using MariaDB tables for this, but some have grown to significant size, and I had to truncate one table recently, after a warning about the database size. Is there/could there be an object store available on Toolforge/Labs, so that I can just record the Object URI/ID/whatnot in the database, and store the blob in the object store? Not urgent or breaking, but might be nice to have...

For a few tools, I find it necessary/helpful to store large numbers of medium-sized blobs (scraped HTML pages, JSON text, the like). I am currently using MariaDB tables for this, but some have grown to significant size, and I had to truncate one table recently, after a warning about the database size. Is there/could there be an object store available on Toolforge/Labs, so that I can just record the Object URI/ID/whatnot in the database, and store the blob in the object store? Not urgent or breaking, but might be nice to have... Now that we have swift on cloudvps, we can use that (with some extra setup/api/system to allow interacting with it).

For a few tools, I find it necessary/helpful to store large numbers of medium-sized blobs (scraped HTML pages, JSON text, the like). I am currently using MariaDB tables for this, but some have grown to significant size, and I had to truncate one table recently, after a warning about the database size. Is there/could there be an object store available on Toolforge/Labs, so that I can just record the Object URI/ID/whatnot in the database, and store the blob in the object store? Not urgent or breaking, but might be nice to have... Now that we have swift on cloudvps, we can use that (with some extra setup/api/system to allow interacting with it).