Oracle Multimedia Explained

Oracle Multimedia
Author:	Oracle Corporation
Developer:	Oracle Corporation
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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.

See also

• Oracle Spatial and Graph

Notes and References

1. Web site: Multimedia User's Guide . docs.oracle.com . Oracle Technology Network . 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. Web site: Deprecation of Oracle Multimedia . docs.oracle.com . Oracle Technology Network . 2019-05-05 . Starting in Oracle Database 18c, Oracle Multimedia is deprecated. Oracle Multimedia will be desupported in Oracle Database 19c..
3. Web site: Desupported Features in Oracle Database 19c . docs.oracle.com . Oracle Technology Network . 2019-05-05 . Oracle Multimedia is desupported in Oracle Database 19c, and the implementation is removed..
4. Putting the Oracle Database to Work as a Multimedia Data Warehouse . Database trends and applications . Jul 17, 2013 . Steve Guilford .
5. Book: Oracle 10g Developing Media Rich Applications . Lynne Dunckley . Larry Guros . Digital Press . 8 April 2011. 978-0-08-049201-8 .