Towards Fully Functional Distributed MultiMedia DBMS

In this paper, we address the issue of Distributed MultiMedia DBMS (DM²DBMS) where traditional meta-database used to describe the database schema is no longer appropriate. The meta-database is the kernel of the DBMS and we do believe that new generation of meta-database is required for DM²DBMS. For this, we provide a multimedia meta-database model M² able to improve multimedia management in DM²DBMS in terms of distributed data storage and retrieval. The proposed multimedia meta-database model is independent (but compatible) of all current data format models (MEPG-4, MPEG-7, etc.). We show how M² can allow to DBMS to easily respond to new requirements imposed by distributed multimedia data.