Database extensions for complex domains

Future versions of the Oracle Server will provide an open and extensible framework for supporting complex data domains including, but not limited to, text, image, spatial, video, and OLAP. This framework encompasses features for defining, storing, updating, indexing, and retrieving complex forms of data with full transaction semantics. The underpinning for these features is an extended Oracle Server that is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS).