Design and Performance Considerations for an Optical Disk-Based, Multimedia Object Server

of attributes, text, images, and voice. T his article describes work undertaken to automate storage and T retrieval of complex data objects that contain text, images, voice, and programs. Until recently, the extremely large storage requirements of these objects posed a major problem in developing commercially viable database management systems capable of handling them. Database management systems that will manage multimedia information also have different functionality, interface, and performance requirements from traditional database management systems. Recent developments in hardware are now making automatic storage, retrieval, and manipulation of complex data objects both possible and economically feasible.

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