Re: Video/Image database (serious)

Robert J. Stein wrote: > > I am also currently working on this. > > txu@softart.com wrote: > > > > Hi, Folks, > > > > Is there any commercial Database/Software for > > Video/Image available? > > > > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! > > > > Tingting Xu (txu@softart.com) > We are currently working on a large database project dealing with images. Our main database has one terabyte disk array just for images. We also have one optical jukebox with 512 platters. Each of the platter can hold one GB data. We also have tape jukeboxes. Next year, we will purchase another two more optical jukeboexes and two more tape jukeboxes. If counting the hierachical storage management (HSM) layer, we have four-tiered client/server architecture. Over 50% of the system has been delivered to our client. If you are asking whether Informix BLOB works. Yes, it works and it works great. But what kind of client workstations you have? If it is PC you do need to be aware how to resolve 64K limit on the size of image/video. You just need to declare huge pointers, although the ESQL/C for Windows manual implies it does not work. Chao