Understanding Multimedia Databases
Multimedia data is all about the data that consist of various media types like animation, graphics, video, audio, and text. All these different data types are in general the basic elements that act as building blocks of the generalized integrating tools, platforms, or multimedia environments. Let's see What is a multimedia database? It is that database that includes media file types like audio, videos, images, documents, or text files. The framework which efficiently helps to manage these different types of multimedia data easily stores delivers and utilizes in different ways and it is known as multimedia database management system.
Applications used for Multimedia Database:
Multimedia databases are very important for efficient management and valuable use of vast amounts of data. The range of applications using multimedia data, the quickly changing technology, and the inbuilt complexities in the semantic illustration, explanation, and comparison are essential for resemblance to face various challenges.
It is no doubt that Multimedia is a powerful tool and is an excellent mode of communication to reach anyone instantly. As we read MD is related to access to different types of data it also requires few applications to run successfully. The list of applications includes Video-on-Demand, Music Database, News-on-Demand, Telemedicine, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Digital Libraries, and Music Database.
Few facts about Multimedia Database
Now that we know a database system is designed to store, manage, and access different types of media, such as sound, text, video, image, animation, graphics, diagram, etc. Let's see a few examples which justify how it is useful to access any form of data.
Corel Image Gallery is one such example that is related to image database which has a stoage for bulk pictures and gives access to users to hunt them by a set of keywords. It is thus considered a multimedia database.
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia is another example. It is an electronic encyclopedia and consists of several multimedia documents that include animations, video clips, photos, and text images.
However, the data types are also broadly categorized into three classes: Static media, Dynamic media and Dimensional media they need to face certain issues and challenges. Multimedia data is very large and requires a large storage space. These data forms also consume a lot of time and bandwidth. It should also possess the ability to retrieve data from a local storage device and respond to queries.
Hence it is understood that without these features none of us can access multimedia information. They are the building blocks in each system to access the information by the user be it a text/document, image, graphics, animations, audio or video. Apart from this it also requires to easily integrate, perform concurrent transactions, as well as support to access and authorize the different application programs.
Multimedia Database is thus a collection of interconnected multimedia data that includes a vast amount of multisource multimedia data like text, images, video, audio, graphics, animations, etc. It is functional with a set of frameworks and applications that help it get used in a systematic manner.
