Oracle Multimedia


Oracle Multimedia is a feature available for Oracle databases, which provides multimedia utilities in a database environment, generating as a result a multimedia database.
Oracle Multimedia was deprecated in Oracle 18c and desupported in Oracle 19c.

Functionalities

Oracle Multimedia is a framework which:
Oracle Multimedia manages multimedia data within an Oracle database under transaction control ; using by default database schemas named ORDSYS and ORDPLUGINS.
ORDSYS provides four media classes:
Alternatively, an Oracle database can use Oracle Multimedia to store and index meta-information together with external references that enable efficient access to media-content stored outside the database.