Design and Implementation of the QBOE Query Language for Multimedia Database Systems

• Main Authors: Ye-in Chang, Shih-hao Jair, Hong-nian Chen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: DML
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.106.2713; http://db.cse.nsysu.edu.tw/~changyi/paper/QBOE.pdf

Amultimedia database (denoted as MMDB) management system manages multimedia data, where multimedia data is de ned as any combination of data in the form of text, images, animation, sound and video. Due to these complex combination of di erent types of data, and many special properties of multimedia applications, traditional record-based DBMS techniques are not e ective and not powerful enough to support those multimedia applications. In this paper, we design and implement a QBOE (Query-By-Object-Example) query language for multimedia database systems. Our system is based on an object-oriented model. The query language is called Query-By-Object-Example, since either DDL (Data De nition Language) or DML (Data Manipulation language) is through an object example. In the part of DDL, the user can specify the prototype of a multimedia application, including the speci c keywords for the application and related operations. In the part of DML, the user can access data by contents or keywords which are speci ed in attributes. Key words: data modeling, database management systems, multimedia database management systems, query languages QBOE Query Language for Multimedia Database Systems 1 I.