Ignition: String vs Text?

So in Ignition I can make a Tag have a datatype String, or a datatype Text. I poked around in the docs and couldn't find an explanation for the differences. So I can use either one, but my question is probably, who would win in a fight? If I come across a Text, should I do anything differently with it?

Interesting, never even noticed that before. You are right, I didn't see any docs about it either. You can post on the IA forum, or email support and ask, they have been OK lately about responding.
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No idea with Ignition but generally the difference between Text and String is that the first byte of a String gives you the length. A Siemens string is a bit different, the first byte is the maximum length and the second byte is the current length.

From stalking the vendor forum, https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/select-distinct-statement-error/747
This makes me think that STRING is stored in the SQL as VARCHAR and TEXT is stored in the SQL as TEXT.
So I think next time I fire up ignition, I will try to write 80000characters to a String and the same 80000 characters to a Text and see if either get truncated.