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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">Oracle Multimedia</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Original author(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Oracle_Corporation" title="Oracle Corporation">Oracle Corporation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Oracle_Corporation" title="Oracle Corporation">Oracle Corporation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Cross-platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross-platform">Cross-platform</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Software_framework" title="Software framework">Software framework</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">Proprietary software</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/multimedia/documentation/index.html">Official website</a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Oracle Multimedia</b> (formerly <b>Oracle <i>inter</i>Media</b> from versions 8 to 10gR2<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) is a feature available for <a href="Oracle_database" class="mw-redirect" title="Oracle database">Oracle databases</a>, which provides <a href="Multimedia" title="Multimedia">multimedia</a> utilities in a database environment, generating as a result a <a href="Multimedia_database" title="Multimedia database">multimedia database</a> (MMDB).
Oracle Multimedia was deprecated in Oracle 18c<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and desupported in Oracle 19c.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Functionalities">Functionalities</h2></div>
<p>Oracle Multimedia is a framework which:<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>as a general-purpose feature enables the management and retrieval of <a href="Image" title="Image">image</a>, <a href="Sound" title="Sound">audio</a>, and <a href="Video" title="Video">video</a> data</li>
<li>recognizes the most popular <a href="Multimedia" title="Multimedia">multimedia</a> formats and can automate <a href="Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> extraction and basic <a href="Image_processing" class="mw-redirect" title="Image processing">image-processing</a></li>
<li>facilitates the <a href="Software_development" title="Software development">development</a> of multimedia applications using <a href="JavaServer_Pages" class="mw-redirect" title="JavaServer Pages">JSPs</a>, <a href="Servlet" class="mw-redirect" title="Servlet">servlets</a>, <a href="PL/SQL" title="PL/SQL">PL/SQL</a> (with new packages) or tools such as <a href="JDeveloper" title="JDeveloper">JDeveloper</a> (<a href="Oracle_Application_Development_Framework" title="Oracle Application Development Framework">ADF</a>/UIX) and Oracle Portal.</li></ul>
<p>Oracle Multimedia manages multimedia data within an Oracle database under transaction control (see <a href="Transaction_processing" title="Transaction processing">transaction processing</a>); using by default <a href="Logical_schema" title="Logical schema">database schemas</a> named <code>ORDSYS</code> and <code>ORDPLUGINS</code> (the "ORD" prefix designates "<a href="Object-relational_database" class="mw-redirect" title="Object-relational database">object-relational data</a>").
</p><p><code>ORDSYS</code> provides four media classes:<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>ORDAudio</li>
<li>ORDDoc</li>
<li>ORDImage</li>
<li>ORDVideo</li></ul>
<p>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.
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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e10777/preface.htm#IMURG11501">"Multimedia User's Guide"</a>. <i>docs.oracle.com</i>. Oracle Technology Network<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2017-05-12</span></span>. <q>In Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1), the name Oracle interMedia was changed to Oracle Multimedia. The feature remains the same, only the name has changed.</q></cite></span>
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<cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/18/upgrd/terminal-release-oracle-multimedia.html#GUID-DBA90E57-2BD8-4CEE-A74B-BFC889B78057">"Deprecation of Oracle Multimedia"</a>. <i>docs.oracle.com</i>. Oracle Technology Network<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-05-05</span></span>. <q>Starting in Oracle Database 18c, Oracle Multimedia is deprecated. Oracle Multimedia will be desupported in Oracle Database 19c.</q></cite></span>
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<cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/upgrd/behavior-changes-deprecated-desupport-oracle-database.html#GUID-4B922F38-109D-42DF-B2AD-698E9FD8A8DE">"Desupported Features in Oracle Database 19c"</a>. <i>docs.oracle.com</i>. Oracle Technology Network<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-05-05</span></span>. <q>Oracle Multimedia is desupported in Oracle Database 19c, and the implementation is removed.</q></cite></span>
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<cite id="CITEREFSteve_Guilford2013" class="citation journal cs1">Steve Guilford (Jul 17, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Think-About-It/Putting-the-Oracle-Database-to-Work-as-a-Multimedia-Data-Warehouse-90735.aspx">"Putting the Oracle Database to Work as a Multimedia Data Warehouse"</a>. Database trends and applications.</cite> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{cite journal}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Cite journal requires <code class="cs1-code">|journal=</code> (help)</span></span>
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<cite id="CITEREFLynne_DunckleyLarry_Guros2011" class="citation book cs1">Lynne Dunckley; Larry Guros (8 April 2011). Digital Press (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-dbeFbCswAYC&q=ORDSYS++ORDAudio+ORDDoc+ORDImage+ORDVideo+ORDSource&pg=PA60"><i>Oracle 10g Developing Media Rich Applications</i></a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-08-049201-8</bdi>.</cite></span>
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