MATISSE: A Multimedia Web DBMS

The explosion of content-rich uses of the World-Wide Web has changed the requirements for multimedia database management systems (DBMS). Relational database systems were not designed to meet these requirements, while object systems were not designed for the high performance multi-user environments necessitated by the Web. The MATISSE TM DBMS has the revolutionary architecture needed to meet these requirements, combining: 9 A proven, high-performance, scaleable server. 9 Intrinsic versioning eliminating the need for locking in typical read-only transactions. 9 General data model capabilities for both standard and multimedia datatypes (image, text, audio, video, etc.) unified within the database.