Re: [GENERAL] SQL for multimedia retrieval

2013-07-29 Thread Amit Langote
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Olivier Austina wrote: > Hi, > > Can SQL be used to retrieve data from multimedia content such as audio, > video, image, full text? > Regards > Olivier > I am not sure if this is really helpful but anyway, if you are willing to spend some efforts on getting multi

Re: [GENERAL] SQL for multimedia retrieval

2013-07-28 Thread Rahila Syed
Hello, Yes. Multimedia data can be stored in PostgreSQL database using either bytea and BLOB types. Depending on size either can be used. BLOB is meant for storing large data. Various interfaces are provided to access such data. Following link can be referred for that. http://www.postgresql.org/d

Re: [GENERAL] SQL for multimedia retrieval

2013-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/27/2013 10:28 AM, Olivier Austina wrote: Hi John It doesn't matter where the file is stored. I want to know if I can do some processing like find similar photos or how many a given word appear in the multimedia content ( e.g. an audio or video) using a query language such as SQL. SQL

Re: [GENERAL] SQL for multimedia retrieval

2013-07-27 Thread Olivier Austina
Hi John It doesn't matter where the file is stored. I want to know if I can do some processing like find similar photos or how many a given word appear in the multimedia content ( e.g. an audio or video) using a query language such as SQL. Regards Olivier 2013/7/27 John R Pierce > On 7/27/20

Re: [GENERAL] SQL for multimedia retrieval

2013-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/27/2013 6:24 AM, Olivier Austina wrote: Can SQL be used to retrieve data from multimedia content such as audio, video, image, full text? it can if the data is stored in the sql database. however for large files like video, I personally would prefer to store it in a file system, and