16.4. ORDBMS Design
The rich variety of data types in an ORDBMS offers a database designer many opportunities for a more efficient design. As discussed in previous sections, an ORDBMS supports number of much better solution compared to RDBMS and other databases.
ORDBMS allows to store the video as an user-defined abstract data type (ADT) object and write methods that capture any special manipulation that an user wish to perform. Allowing users to define arbitrary new data types is a key feature of ORDBMs. The ORDBMS allows users to store and retrieve objects of type jpeg-image which stores a compressed image representing a single frame of film, just like an object of any other type, such as integer. New atomic data types usually need to have ...
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