Goal
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A General Purpose Multi-User Object Storage System for Storing and Managing
Vast Amount of Multimedia Data
Features
and Characteristics
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Storage and Retrieval of Vast Amount of Multimedia Objects
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High Performance for Systems such as Web-Site Search Engines, Document
Retrieval Systems on Intranets, and Digital Libraries, where Dynamic Updates
are Frequently Required
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Concurrent Access for Multiple Users
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Robust WAL-Based Crash Recovery with Record (Object) Level Locking
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A File System on Raw Devices
Application
Areas
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Relational Database Management Systems
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Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
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Multimedia Database Management Systems
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Information Retrieval (IR) Engines
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Web-Site Search Engines
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Engineering Database Management Systems
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Home Shopping
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Digital Libraries
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Multimedia Information Servers
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Multimedia/Hypermedia Authoring Tools
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Geographic Information Systems
Commercial
Products
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COSMOS/IR-S: a high-tech storage system product tightly coupled with a
text IR engine being used as the core engine for the web-site search system
Naver (previously, Web Glider) of Samsung
SDS Co. Naver has the largest database and is fastest in Korea.
Expected
Results
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Core technological know-how for Object Storage Systems, Information Retrieval,
and Spatial Access Method
Research
Progress and Future Directions
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Extended Features for Multimedia: Continuous Stream Management, Synchronization
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Advanced DBMS Facilities: Long Transactions, Version Management
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