Oracle Multimedia (formerly Oracle ''inter''Media from versions 8 to 10gR2) is a feature available for

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s, which provides

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

utilities in a database environment, generating as a result a

multimedia database A Multimedia database (MMDB) is a collection of related for multimedia data. The multimedia data include one or more primary media data types such as text, images, graphic objects (including drawings, sketches and illustrations) animation sequence ...

(MMDB). Oracle Multimedia was deprecated in Oracle 18c and desupported in Oracle 19c.

Functionalities

Oracle Multimedia is a framework which: * as a general-purpose feature enables the management and retrieval of

image An image or picture is a visual representation. An image can be Two-dimensional space, two-dimensional, such as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or Three-dimensional space, three-dimensional, such as a carving or sculpture. Images may be di ...

audio Audio most commonly refers to sound, as it is transmitted in signal form. It may also refer to: Sound *Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound *Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum *Digital audio, representation of sound ...

, and

video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...

data * recognizes the most popular

formats and can automate

metadata Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive ...

extraction and basic image-processing * facilitates the

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of multimedia applications using JSPs,

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(with new packages) or tools such as

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( ADF/UIX) and Oracle Portal. Oracle Multimedia manages multimedia data within an Oracle database under transaction control (see

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); using by default database schemas named ORDSYS and ORDPLUGINS (the "ORD" prefix designates " object-relational data"). ORDSYS provides four media classes: *ORDAudio *ORDDoc *ORDImage *ORDVideo 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.

Functionalities

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