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 , 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: 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.
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See also Oracle Spatial and Graph