What is a Multimedia Database?

Generally, majority of businesses, schools and other institutions use multimedia data to store data and disseminate important information.  Multimedia data consists of digital images, sounds, videos, animation, graphics as well as text data. During the past few years, the generating, processing and storing of multimedia data has grown immensely.  There are three factors that contributed to the growth of multimedia usage.  The first one is the use of personal computers as well as high-definition gadgets such as digital cameras, video cameras, scanners, printers and monitors.  [...]