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The database technology was originally developed for large volumes of heavily structured (alphanumeric) data with requirements that differ from multimedia applications. For this reason, the traditional database systems are currently being expanded by multimedia-specific components and language primitives, allowing multimedia database management systems (MMDBMSs) to efficiently handle multimedia data and appropriately support multimedia applications. In particular, this concerns expansions to allow the interpretation of media data contents for processing and output, and to include the specific properties of media data, such as large data volumes, synchronization, and real-time processing conditions.
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Steinmetz, R., Nahrstedt, K. (2004). Database Systems. In: Multimedia Applications. X.media.publishing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08876-0_2
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