Résumé

Un système de gestion de bases d’images doit a priori s’appuyer sur un système de gestion de bases de données (SGBD). Dans cet article, nous examinons expérimentalement les limitations des SGBD relationnels. Nous identifions ainsi un certain nombre d’écueils et apportons

Abstract

An image database system should use a database management system (DBMS). In this paper, we experiment relational DBMS limitations for such a purpose. We identify a number of pitfalls and provide some solutions too. Some are still partially supported. However, five key points have been identified so far: reducing the metadata size, introducing some redundant data, taking advantage of parallelism, classifying and distributing metadata, using different indexing schemes.