What are Multimedia Database Characteristics ?
Multimedia Database Characteristics A multimedia database contains various data types such as text, images, graphic objects (including pictures, drawings, and illustrations), animation sequences, video, and audio. Additionally, Kalipsiz summarized some characteristics of multimedia data below: • Lack of structure: Multimedia data often are not quite structured; therefore, standard indexing and/or content-based search and retrieval may not be available. • Temporality: Different multimedia data types have different requirements. For example, some multimedia data types such as video, audio, and animation sequences have temporal requirements that have implications on their storage, manipulation, and presentation, but images, video, and graphics data have spatial constraints in terms of their content. • Massive Volume: Usually, the data size of multimedia is large such as video; therefore, multimedia data often require a large storage device. • Logistics: Non-standa