ABSTRACT
A multimedia database system includes a multimedia database management system and a multimedia database. A multimedia database management system (MM-DBMS) manages the multimedia database. A multimedia database is a database, which contains multimedia data. Multimedia data may include structured data as well as semi-structured and unstructured data such as audio, video, text, and images. An MMDBMS provides support for storing, manipulating, and retrieving multimedia data from a multimedia database. In a sense, a multimedia database system is a type of heterogeneous database system, as it manages heterogeneous data types. Heterogeneity is due to the media of the data such as text, video, and audio.
