Oracle Multimedia

Oracle Multimedia
Original author(s) Oracle Corporation
Developer(s) Oracle Corporation
Development status Active
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English
Type Software framework
License Proprietary software
Website Official website

Oracle Multimedia (formerly Oracle interMedia from versions 8 to 11g[1]), is a feature available for Oracle databases, which provides multimedia utilities in a database environment, generating as a result a multimedia database (MMDB).

Functionalities

Oracle Multimedia is a framework which:[2]

Oracle Multimedia manages multimedia data within an Oracle database under transaction control (see transaction processing); using by default database schemas named ORDSYS and ORDPLUGINS (the "ORD" prefix designates "object-relational data").

ORDSYS provides four media classes:[3]

Alternatively, an Oracle database can use Oracle Multimedia to store and index meta-information together with external references that enable efficient access to media-content stored outside the database.

References

  1. "Oracle Multimedia Documentation for Oracle Database 12c". www.oracle.com. Oracle Technology Network. Retrieved 2013-12-11. The name Oracle interMedia was changed to Oracle Multimedia in Oracle Database 11g Release 1.
  2. Steve Guilford (Jul 17, 2013). "Putting the Oracle Database to Work as a Multimedia Data Warehouse". Database trends and applications.
  3. Lynne Dunckley, Larry Guros (8 April 2011). Digital Press, ed. Oracle 10g Developing Media Rich Applications.

See also

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