M. Didkovska, V. Naryzhnyi Features of constructing a multimedia database management system

For today information is one of the most valuable resources, so the requirements to the systems of storage have to be severe. With the invention of high speed data transfer, the traditional text information is complemented by multimedia: photo, audio and video materials. Nowadays, there is no unified approach to the architecture of multimedia databases, multimedia data require more complex functionality then processing of textual information. In this work the basic requirements for multimedia database were specified. The functions and approaches used for work with multimedia objects were pointed out. Two approaches to the organization of multimedia databases were considered – with usage of file servers and without. The experimental study has shown the practicability of file servers’ using for storage of multimedia information, because this approach provides higher speed of data read-write

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