Re: ORACLE vs INFORMIX vs MS SQL SERVER

Posted in 1998

Art S. Kagel — Mon, 09 Nov 1998 14:18:48 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Axel Sander wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 07:15:52 +0200, "Billy Wheeler" <billy@west.co.za> > wrote: > > >Could be useful, especially if you upgraded to IDS/UDO and got the > >ability to do contextual searches of your images... > > I'm still using an SE engine, so I can't say anything on IDS/UDO but a > database with the ability of analyzing images sounds strange to me. There are datablades for IDS/UDO that can search BLOB data for matching image segments or video or audio and return all rows containing that image. Ie 'find all episodes of Star Trek Classic containing a image of a phaser rifle' by supplying a clip of such a phaser rifle. Yes it can be done. Art S. Kagel