Re: image database

        I developed one such system and have been the DBA for two others. In all cases the images were stored outside of the database as flat files and the database carried structured information about the images along with their file addresses.

        From what I see in the newsgroups people who are storing the images in the database itself tend to suffer performance problems. I suspect this is because RDBMS were never intended to accommodate extremely large records in the first place. In particular operations that require a full scan of the table containing the images tends to be painfully slow. By separating the images from the information about them this pain can be avoided.

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On 6/21/00, 9:16:44 AM, "a.p." <picus_at_libero.it> wrote regarding image database:

> I'm looking for people working on image database, to exchange
 eperiences
> about image indexing and query optimization.
> Thank you
> Antonio Picariello
Received on Thu Jun 22 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST