Question

What is multimedia ? What are the limitation of traditional databases?

Answer 1

Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (Video), animation, audio, and any other media where every type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally.

Relational and warehouse database systems  often read data in 8k or 16k block sizes. These block sizes load data into memory, and then the data are processed by applications. When processing large volumes of data, reading the data in these block sizes is extremely inefficient.