Oracle R2DBC is supposed to use 1GB as the default LOB prefetch size. > [By default, Oracle R2DBC attempts to prefetch the entire content of a LOB. Oracle R2DBC will request up to 1GB of prefetched data from Oracle Database when executing a SQL query.](https://github.com/oracle/oracle-r2dbc#prefetched-lob-data) In fact, it is using 1 MB default value. [The 1MB setting can be seen here](https://github.com/oracle/oracle-r2dbc/blob/dbb4daa642a5c3a6911a3892c37a635f005d3464/src/main/java/oracle/r2dbc/impl/OracleReactiveJdbcAdapter.java#L661)