If I understand the question correctly, your use case would be that you have a compressed value on the server and want to extract it on the server and keep it there.
This is possible and mostly depends on how the values has been compressed.
If you use the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm used in the UTL_COMPRESS package, you can extract it directly in PL/SQL.
For other formats like zip, you will need to use some custom Java code like the following example:
CREATE OR REPLACE
JAVA SOURCE NAMED ZIP_Java
AS
import java.io.*;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.sql.Blob;
public class Java_Class {
public static int ZipBlob(Blob inLob, Blob[] outLob, String filename) {
try {
// create the zipoutputstream from the end of the outLob
Blob zipLob = outLob[0];
OutputStream os = zipLob.setBinaryStream(1);
ZipOutputStream zos = new ZipOutputStream(os);
// add one zip entry
ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(filename);
zos.putNextEntry(entry);
// write data to the zip lob
long len = inLob.length();
long offset = 0;
byte[] buffer;
int chunksize = 32768;
while (offset < len) {
buffer = inLob.getBytes(offset + 1, chunksize);
if (buffer == null)
break;
zos.write(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
offset += buffer.length;
}
zos.closeEntry();
zos.close();
outLob[0] = zipLob;
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception: " + e.toString());
e.printStackTrace(System.out);
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
public static int UnzipBlob(Blob inLob, Blob[] outLob, String filename) {
try {
final int kBUFFER = 2048;
InputStream inps = inLob.getBinaryStream();
ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream(inps);
ZipEntry entry;
Blob fileLob = outLob[0];
OutputStream os = fileLob.setBinaryStream(1);
while((entry = zis.getNextEntry()) != null) {
if (entry.getName().equalsIgnoreCase(filename)) {
byte data[] = new byte[kBUFFER];
BufferedOutputStream dest = new BufferedOutputStream(os, kBUFFER);
int count;
while ((count = zis.read(data, 0, kBUFFER)) != -1) {
dest.write(data, 0, count);
}
dest.flush();
dest.close();
}
}
zis.close();
return 1;
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Exception: " + e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
return 0;
}
}
}
/
CREATE OR REPLACE
FUNCTION ZipBlobJava(theSource IN BLOB, theDestination IN OUT NOCOPY BLOB, theFilename IN VARCHAR2) RETURN NUMBER
AS LANGUAGE JAVA NAME 'Java_Class.ZipBlob(java.sql.Blob, java.sql.Blob[], java.lang.String) return int';
/
CREATE OR REPLACE
FUNCTION UnzipBlobJava(theSource IN BLOB, theDestination IN OUT NOCOPY BLOB, theFilename IN VARCHAR2) RETURN NUMBER
AS LANGUAGE JAVA NAME 'Java_Class.UnzipBlob(java.sql.Blob, java.sql.Blob[], java.lang.String) return int';
/