Should heavy binary files be stored in database?

I was asked an interesting question: Should a database contains all data? Or heavy binary files should be stored in file system?
Example of heavy binary files : videos or heavy pdf files (+200 MB).
With an old aspx web app (1.1) I tried to open a 200MB pdf file stored as a blob in an Oracle 11g database, and it just run out of memory.
However, same asp.net web application had no problem to open same pdf file stored in file system of a server. It could be that maybe there is some proper way to open heavy blobs fields with asp.net.
For integrity reasons, I say that all data should be stored in database, but my described case showed me that maybe it's not the way.
SQL Server allows the contents of varbinary(max) columns to be stored on the file system, maybe there is something similar in Oracle?

user521219 wrote:
With an old aspx web app (1.1) I tried to open a 200MB pdf file stored as a blob in an Oracle 11g database, and it just run out of memory.Because it likely tried to read, and cache, the entire BLOB. Instead of reading and streaming BLOB chunks to the (web browser) client.
However, same asp.net web application had no problem to open same pdf file stored in file system of a server. It could be that maybe there is some proper way to open heavy blobs fields with asp.net.So now blame Oracle for the inability of an ASP/.Net programmer to stream file contents correctly, but not LOB contents?
SQL Server allows the contents of varbinary(max) columns to be stored on the file system, maybe there is something similar in Oracle?You want Oracle to be like SQL-Server? Oracle does a poor SQL-Server imitation. It plays the role of being Oracle, technically the most advance relational database management system available, excellently.

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