an></a> <span class="Other">=</span> <span class="Identifier">Val</span></pre></dt>
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A variable-length collection of bytes that can be used as either a key or value. This is LMDB's native storage type- a block of memory. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><span class="Identifier">string</span></span></tt> types are converted automatically, and conversion for other data types can be added by adding <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><span class="Identifier">fromBlob</span></span>