Oracle interMedia, a feature available for Oracle database

Oracle database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

s, provides multimedia

Multimedia

Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...

 utilities in a database environment.

interMedia:

• as a general-purpose feature enables the management and retrieval of image
  Image
  An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:...
  
  , audio
  Sound
  Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of...
  
  , and video
  Video
  Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
  
   data
• recognizes the most popular multimedia
  Multimedia
  Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
  
   formats and can automate metadata
  Metadata
  The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
  
   extraction and basic image-processing
  Image processing
  In electrical engineering and computer science, image processing is any form of signal processing for which the input is an image, such as a photograph or video frame; the output of image processing may be either an image or, a set of characteristics or parameters related to the image...
  
  
• facilitates the development
  Software development
  Software development is the development of a software product...
  
   of multimedia applications using JSPs
  JavaServer Pages
  JavaServer Pages is a Java technology that helps software developers serve dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types...
  
  , servlets, PL/SQL
  PL/SQL
  PL/SQL is Oracle Corporation's procedural extension language for SQL and the Oracle relational database...
  
   or tools such as JDeveloper
  JDeveloper
  JDeveloper is a freeware IDE supplied by Oracle Corporation. It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL and PHP...
  
   (ADF
  Oracle Application Development Framework
  In computing, Oracle Application Development Framework, usually called Oracle ADF, provides a commercial Java framework for building enterprise applications. It provides visual and declarative approaches to Java EE development...
  
  /UIX) and Oracle Portal.

interMedia manages multimedia data within an Oracle database under transaction control (see transaction processing

Transaction processing

In computer science, transaction processing is information processing that is divided into individual, indivisible operations, called transactions. Each transaction must succeed or fail as a complete unit; it cannot remain in an intermediate state...

); using by default database schemas

Logical schema

A Logical Schema is a data model of a specific problem domain expressed in terms of a particular data management technology. Without being specific to a particular database management product, it is in terms of either relational tables and columns, object-oriented classes, or XML tags...

 named ORDSYS and ORDPLUGINS. (The "ORD" prefix designates "object-relational data

Object-relational database

An object-relational database , or object-relational database management system , is a database management system similar to a relational database, but with an object-oriented database model: objects, classes and inheritance are directly supported in database schemas and in the query language...

".)

Alternatively, an Oracle database can use interMedia to store and index meta-information together with external references that enable efficient access to media-content stored outside the database.