A database management system that is centred around storing and managing unstructured data with multimedia should satisfy the requirements given later.
The traditional filesystem has severe limitations associated with it. Most filesystems including Windows NTFS and Unix UFS do not scale. They have limitations on file size's length, filename's length, number of files per directory as well as performance issues searching against them, performing maintenance, and navigating through them. Security varies is complex to manage and in some cases hard to audit and track when changes are made. They do not efficiently manage versioning, natively index the data, and enable multi-dimensional views of the data.
Most operating systems are woefully inadequate for the storage of unstructured data, and yet they are still needed, because a large number of applications (such as Adobe Photoshop) are centered around the concept of reading and writing to a...
