Image Explorer

The Image Explorer image database system (IDS) can be integrated with any existing database-supported business system Image Explorer is an IDS (image database system) which can be implemented within any existing database-supported business system or the IDS can be utilized for serving images to a Unix-, Linux-, or NT-hosted web server.

The Image Explorer application uses Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) to access a multitude of database management systems (DBMS) such as Access, SQLServer, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, etc. Systems integrated with Image Explorer can use any native connection method such as Oracle's OCI or Pro*C or Informix' ISQL or an open interface such as ODBC or Perl's DBI to manage image records in the IDS. Since the IDS can use any DBMS, the scalability of the IDS is directly dependent on the specific DBMS used.

When you create a table within a database for storing images, if you select the 'Store images on file' option, you will be able to Insert, Update, Delete, and Select image records into and from the IDS independent of the Image Explorer interface. You can also create the tables manually instead of using the Image Explorer user-interface. At any time, you can open Image Explorer using Windows NT/95/98/2000 for viewing and managing images added to the database outside of Image Explorer.

Integration consists of creating a valid IDS table and adding one column in the table that is a foreign-key to a related table in an existing system. When the IDS table is created, you will also elect to store images in the file system rather than storing the images as binary data within the IDS. Hence, integration is open and straightforward. Query your custom table and use the image_id column to query the r_images table to retrieve the location of an image.

Here are some key features of "Image Explorer":