Published in: Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ‘94), Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp. 470-477.
Authors: Andrew Laursen, Jeffrey Olkin, Mark Porter (New Media Division, Oracle Corporation)
The paper describes the Oracle Media Server, a platform for distributed client-server computing and access to data over asymmetric real-time networks. With the introduction of broadband communications to the home and better than 100-to-1 compression techniques, a new form of network-based computing was emerging where structured data was still important, but the bulk of data became unstructured: audio, video, news feeds, etc.
The Oracle Media Server supports access to all types of conventional data stored in Oracle relational and text databases, and includes a real-time stream server that supports storage and playback of real-time audio and video data.