Oracle Multimedia

Oracle Multimedia (formerly Oracle interMedia from versions 8 to 10gR2) 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 and desupported in Oracle 19c.

Functionalities

Oracle Multimedia is a framework which:

• 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 <code>ORDSYS</code> and <code>ORDPLUGINS</code> (the "ORD" prefix designates "object-relational data").

<code>ORDSYS</code> 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.

References

See also

• Oracle Spatial and Graph