Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Prof. N. L. Sarda for his invaluable guidance and encouragement and support for making this seminar as informative experience for me.

Ajit Burad

Abstract:

As the use of multimedia data has increased tremendously in various software applications. The applications include digital libraries (text documents, images, sound, video), manufacturing and retailing, art and entertainment, journalism and so on.. Normal databases are incapable of handling such wide range and huge amount of data. So we need database to support storage, indexing, retrieval of huge and wide variety of data. This report presents different ways of storing multimedia data in order facilitate easy indexing and retrieval. This includes advanced data structures and use of metadata to store multimedia data . This report also gives an insight of multimedia data support provided by SQL. The goal of this report is to provide details to understand various techniques to support, improve efficiency of multimedia database.