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From: Andre_Louis_Marquis@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: re:  PC/UNIX/Mac databases that support images?
Message-ID: <26017@cup.portal.com>
Date: 17 Jan 90 05:51:22 GMT
References: <598@shodha.dec.com>
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>-> What PC, UNIX and/or Mac databases support images as fields?
>
>What sort of images do you want to store, Andre?  Most database
>managers support attributes which are uninterpreted byte strings.
>What sort of image size are you thinking of?  Do you need any 
>special sorts of indexing?
>
>Regards,
>Dave Wahl
>===================================================================
>Digital Equipment Corporation
>Database Systems Research (CXN/2)
>1175 Chapel Hills Drive
>Colorado Springs, CO 80920-2080

The most important property is that the database can display the image on the
screen.  An ideal database would accept multiple image formats as input and
display the images as precisely as the hardware allows.  Is 4th Dimension this
flexible?  I'm stuck dealing with everything from 16x16 monochrome bitmaps to
1152x900x24 bit images.  512x480x8 bits is about the minimum (~256K/image).

Since you mentioned uninterpreded byte strings, what databases support even
that?  Product literature rarely mentions such things.  Thanks.

Andre Marquis
andre_marquis@cup.portal.com