Chapter 3. Introduction to interMedia Storage
Introduction
Many enterprises expend tremendous resources on the acquisition, storage, and management of collections of images, including graphics, video, and audio. While acquiring such data can be time-consuming and expensive, it has tremendous business value and represents a large investment. Therefore, storage and processing this media is one of the fastest growing applications.
In this chapter we look at the options for storing media within a database. We also learn how to create a multimedia database using relational and object-relational concepts. We will introduce a simple information systems case study to illustrate the issues and see how the different approaches could work out in practice. ...
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