Sunnyvale, California-based MediaWay Inc has a new database management system. The MediaDB is for a variety of digital multimedia cataloging applications. It also has a MediaDB application developers kit. The MediaDB DBMS and application developers kit can store, retrieve and modify multimedia information. They have built-in compression technologies to handle complex images and sound objects and built-in video, sound and image browsing and playback tools to simplify application development. They have multimedia-specific support for local and wide area networking. The company has added interactive querying and browsing tools, support for SQL, multimedia specific transaction management and performance enhancement for image display and compression. MediaDB supports Windows, Mac OS, Windows NT, SunOS and other versions of Unix. MediaDB includes techniques for abstracting, summarising, or compressing and decompressing objects. MediaDB also includes an industry-standard SQL interface. MediaDB DBMS 2.0 is available now; development system pricing starts at $10,000; run-time versions are priced at from $10,000 for 20 users.
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