Towards heterogeneous multimedia information systems: the Garlic approach

  • Authors:
  • M. J. Carey;L. M. Haas;P. M. Schwarz;M. Arya;W. F. Cody;R. Fagin;M. Flickner;A. W. Luniewski;W. Niblack;D. Petkovic;J. Thomas;J. H. Williams;E. L. Wimmers

  • Affiliations:
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  • Venue:
  • RIDE '95 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering-Distributed Object Management (RIDE-DOM'95)
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Provides an overview of the Garlic project, a new project at the IBM Almaden Research Center. The goal of this project is to develop a system and associated tools for the management of large quantities of heterogeneous multimedia information. Garlic permits traditional and multimedia data to he stored in a variety of existing data repositories, including databases, files, text managers, image managers, video servers, and so on; the data is seen through a unified schema expressed in an object-oriented data model and can be queried and manipulated using an object-oriented dialect of SQL, perhaps through an advanced query/browser tool that we are also developing. The Garlic architecture is designed to be extensible to new kinds of data repositories, and access efficiency is addressed via a "middleware" query processor that uses database query optimization techniques to exploit the native associative search capabilities of the underlying data repositories.