CS240A

Notes on DB Extenders

a.k.a. Data Blades, Cartridge, Snapins

Carlo Zaniolo

Department of Computer Science

University of California, Los Angeles

WINTER 2002

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A Growing List ---for DB2 and other vendors have many more

DB2 Image Extender DB2 Audio Extender DB2 Video Extender DB2 Text Extender DB2 Spatial Extender DB2 Video Charger Ext. EcoWin Time Series MapInfo SpatialWare TI

Extender

Fillmore SQL Expander XML Extender IBM Net Search Ext. IBM Net Search Ext. Prime DES Encryption and

Key Management OANDA Currency Ext. Protegrity Secure.Data

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Import and export audio clips and their attributes into and out of a database. When you import an audio clip, the DB2 Audio Extender stores and maintains audio attributes such as number of audio channels, transfer time, and sampling rate.

Secure and recover audio data. Audio clips and their attributes that you store in a DB2 database are afforded the same security and recovery protection as traditional data. Also access control.

Query audio clips based on related business data or by audio attributes. You can search for audio clips based on data that you maintain, such as a name, number, or description; or by data that the DB2 Audio Extender maintains, such as the format of the audio or the date and time that it was last updated.

Play audio clips. You can use the DB2 Audio Extender to retrieve an audio clip. You can then use the DB2 Audio Extender to invoke your favorite audio browser to play the audio clip. The DB2 Audio Extender supports a variety of audio file formats, such as WAVE and MIDI, and can work with different file-based audio servers.

Basics: e.g. Audio Extenders

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Extenders’ Architecture

The DB2 Audio Extender defines a new data type and functions for audio

using DB2 Universal Database's built-in support for user-defined types and user-defined functions

It also exploits DB2 UDB's support for large objects of up to 2 gigabytes, and

uses DB2 triggers to provide integrity checking across database tables ensuring the referential integrity of audio data.

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Image Extender

Import and export: DB2 Image Extender stores and maintains image attributes such as size in bytes, format, height, width, and number of colors.

Convert the format of images: scale an image, rotate it, do black-white image inversion, compression

Query images by user attributes, DB2-generated attributes or QBIC: QBIC lets you use visual examples of colors or texture patterns as search criteria

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DB2 Video Extender

Automatic Scene Change Detection Video Storyboards

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Text Extender

DB2 Text Extender offers a rich set of text search features that allow for more complex and precise queries as well as an improved recall---patent research, legal docs

Dictionary-based linguistic support for many languages such as Arabic, Brazil, Canadian French, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English (US and UK), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss German and Thai.

DB2 Net Search Extender contains a DB2 stored procedure that adds the power of fast full-text retrieval

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DB2 Spatial Extender

DB2 Spatial Extender allows you to gather spatial data and attach non-spatial business data attributes to it. With the Spatial Extender, your business data and spatial data are now integrated, making the task of creating a GIS as straightforward as creating any other information system.

More integrated than standard extenders

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XML Extenders

Extracts XML elements and attributes into traditional SQL data types, leveraging DB2s sophisticated indexing and SQL query

Provides storage, retrieval, and updates of XML documents in a single column

Composes existing DB2 data into XML documents Stores XML documents as a collection of DB2 data, in multiple

columns and tables Manages your DTD repository Integrates the powerful search functions of Text Extender for

searching one or more sections within a set of XML documents

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XML

An Extender Or the blueprints for future evolution of

database systems ?

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Object Relational DBMSs: Extensibility in SQL1999

Large Objects: BLOBs CLOBs. Also locators to large objects

External Functions (User Defined Functions---UDFs):Defined in C++ or JAVA and linked into DB2. OLEs

also supported.The linchpin of database extenders

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UDFs in DB2

UDFs can be called from SQL, which passes them arguments (e.g., a blob) and and expect a single value back.

UDFs cannot directly access the DB Scalar functions (no memory), scratchpad functions (memory),

table functions (return set of tuples). No aggregate functions (in DB2) FENCED, or NOT FENCED (fast and dangerous) UDFs are Hard to Write and Debug Impedance mismatch ... many qualifiers: DETERMINISTIC,

DBINFO, EXTERNAL ACTION, SCRATCHPAD