Oracle Multimedia

Oracle Multimedia

Original author(s)	Oracle Corporation
Developer(s)	Oracle Corporation
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 10gR2^[1]) is a feature available for Oracle databases, which provides multimedia utilities in a database environment, generating as a result a multimedia database (MMDB). Oracle Multimedia was deprecated in Oracle 18c^[2] and desupported in Oracle 19c.^[3]

Functionalities

Oracle Multimedia is a framework which:^[4]

• as a general-purpose feature enables the management and retrieval of image, audio, and video data
• recognizes the most popular multimedia formats and can automate metadata extraction and basic image-processing
• facilitates the development of multimedia applications using JSPs, servlets, PL/SQL (with new packages) or tools such as JDeveloper (ADF/UIX) and Oracle Portal.

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:^[5]

• 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.

References

1. "Multimedia User's Guide". docs.oracle.com. Oracle Technology Network. Retrieved 2017-05-12. In Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1), the name Oracle interMedia was changed to Oracle Multimedia. The feature remains the same, only the name has changed.
2. "Deprecation of Oracle Multimedia". docs.oracle.com. Oracle Technology Network. Retrieved 2019-05-05. Starting in Oracle Database 18c, Oracle Multimedia is deprecated. Oracle Multimedia will be desupported in Oracle Database 19c.
3. "Desupported Features in Oracle Database 19c". docs.oracle.com. Oracle Technology Network. Retrieved 2019-05-05. Oracle Multimedia is desupported in Oracle Database 19c, and the implementation is removed.
4. Steve Guilford (Jul 17, 2013). "Putting the Oracle Database to Work as a Multimedia Data Warehouse". Database trends and applications. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
5. Lynne Dunckley; Larry Guros (8 April 2011). Digital Press (ed.). Oracle 10g Developing Media Rich Applications. ISBN 978-0-08-049201-8.

See also

• Oracle Spatial and Graph