DBMS for Multimedia
Systems:
Since most multimedia applications are based primarily on communications technologies, such as electronic mail, the database system must be fully distributed. A number of database storage choices are available.
The available choices are:
- Extending the existing relational database management systems (RDBMS) to support the various objects for multimedia as binary objects.
- Extending RDBMS beyond basis binary objects to the concepts of inheritance and classes. RDBMS supporting these features provide extensions for object-programming front ends and/or C++ support
- Converting to full fledged object oriented database that supports the standard SQL language
- Converting the database and the application to an object-oriented database and using an object oriented language, or an object-enabled SQL for development
