A distributed database server for continuous media

• Published in: Proceedings 18th International Conference on Data Engineering pp. 490 - 491
• Main Authors: Aref, W.G., Catlin, A.C., Elmagarmid, A.K., Fan, J., Guo, J., Hammad, M., Ilyas, I.F., Marzouk, M.S., Prabhakar, S., Rezgui, A., Teoh, S., Terzi, E., Tu, Y., Vakali, A., Zhu, X.Q.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos CA IEEE 2002
• Subjects: Aggregates; Applied sciences; Buffer storage; Computer science; control theory; systems; Data mining; Distributed databases; Exact sciences and technology; Feature extraction; Information systems. Data bases; Memory organisation. Data processing; MPEG 7 Standard; Query processing; Samarium; Software; Streaming media; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Teleprocessing networks. Isdn; Web server; Video databases; Network servers; Distributed database; Database management system; Video servers; World wide web
• ISBN: 9780769515311; 0769515312
• ISSN: 1063-6382; 2375-026X
• DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2002.994764

In our project, we are adopting a new approach for handling video data. We view the video as a well-defined data type with its own description, parameters and applicable methods. The system is based on PREDATOR, an open-source object-relational DBMS. PREDATOR uses Shore as the underlying storage manager. Supporting video operations (storing, searching-by-content and streaming) and new query types (query-by-example and multi-feature similarity searching) requires major changes in many of the traditional system components. More specifically, the storage and buffer manager has to deal with huge volumes of data with real-time constraints. Query processing has to consider the video methods and operators in generating, optimizing and executing the query plans.