Oracle Multimedia

Oracle Multimedia (formerly Oracle interMedia from versions 8 to 10gR2^[1]) 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^[2] and desupported in Oracle 19c.^[3]

Oracle Multimedia

Original author(s)	Oracle Corporation
Developer(s)	Oracle Corporation
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	English
Type	Software framework
License	Proprietary software
Website	Official website

Functionalities

Oracle Multimedia is a framework which:^[4]

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

ORDSYS provides four media classes:^[5]

• 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.