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Do all of these use blossom?  
 I don't think any use blossom. Yet at least. Sheetstr really doesn't need blobs.  
 Why does sheetsr not need blobs? Are you trying to transmit massive csvs embedded in json  
 Strings, integers and floats don't need to be blobs 
 What's the limit on size of a string? What about special characters? 

Even if these work... Is that an efficient way to do it?  
 A blob is still just data. It has to be stored some way. Docs functions don't need blob data types for anything really. Efficiency would be largely up to the back end and what kind of database is used and how it's queried.  
 Yeah, but blob is byte by byte. If you don't use blobs for docs, stuff like pics and emoji would be corrupted, right?