IFS for Storing images?

Would it make sense to use iFS to store and serve images that are uploaded
(via browser) and then displayed on a website?
When storing the imgages directly on the disk we run into scalability issues
as well as having to worry about propagating copies of each image to each
web
server.
Does it make more sense to store the images in iFS or simply in a BLOB (or
whatever) in a normal Oracle table?
Is anyone using iFS for this?
Regards
null

Well, it runs more resources than the database itself does, since it runs as an external Java application. Check out the Installation Guide for recommended memory and disk for running it on the same machine as the database or on the middle tier.
As Hanne said, it all depends on your priorities. If all you want to do is store and you're an adroit database programmer, you might bypass iFS altogether. If you don't want to do any development to give users the ability to upload, download, and search for images, and you'd rather give them familiar network protocol interfaces like Windows networking and FTP than a custom application, I'd run the file system.

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Which is better datatype for storing Images in 11gr2 Database ?

Can anyone tell me which datatype should be maintained for storing images in database in terms of
1. Space
2. Speed.
And, Is there another way for storing images instead of database ?
Thanks/Regards in advacne.

982164 wrote:
Which one have better speed, database system or file system ?Database is better all around. It is not just a question of speed. It is a question of storage, security, flexibility, scalability, robustness and so on.
If you use ASM and raw devices from a storage array or SAN, how do you get o/s files onto that? (requires a file system on the SAN/array LUNs)
If it is inside the database, database security, concurrency and consistency apply to the image. Outside the database? How do you control who has access? Prevent someone with slippery fingers from accidentally deleting/renaming/moving images files? How do you backup up the image data with the image attribute data in the database?
Having all this inside the database, part of the database, managed by the database, provides you with more flexibility, robustness, and security. After all a RDBMS is a data management system - it is designed for managing data. And that includes managing binary data.
As for speed. Reading a 24MB image is reading 24MB worth of data. Whether that data is read by process A from disk1, or process B from disk2 - the amount of data is the same. So if you want faster I/O, then use faster disks. If disk1 is faster, process A will perform better reading the image than process B. If disk2 is faster, the roles are reversed.
So I/O speed is not a direct function of process A or process B. It is a direct function of the I/O storage and fabric layer. Yes, a process's method of I/O can make a difference (e.g. using block reads not aligned with the physical blocks on disk). But this is more a configuration issue than process doing badly designed I/O calls.
So the speed question is a bit loaded as it has more to do with the architecture and design of the I/O system - and less to do with the process doing that I/O. You can have a highly optimised I/O process doing poorly using an old and slow I/O layer, and poorly written I/O process doing pretty well on a SSD I/O layer.
Databases like Oracle is designed for dealing with data - and thus effectively dealing with I/O. Lots of it. For lots of data. So I/O process design is not a consideration. The database processes will use the I/O layer as optimally as possible and as configured.

IFS for Hosting Images

Would it make sense to use iFS to store and serve images that are uploaded
(via browser) by a user and then displayed on a website?
When storing the imgages directly on the disk we run into scalability issues
as well as having to worry about propagating copies of each image to each web server.
Does it make more sense to store the images in iFS or simply in a BLOB (or
whatever) in a normal Oracle table?
Is anyone using iFS for this? Possible pitfalls? Other suggestions?
Regards
null

Well, it runs more resources than the database itself does, since it runs as an external Java application. Check out the Installation Guide for recommended memory and disk for running it on the same machine as the database or on the middle tier.
As Hanne said, it all depends on your priorities. If all you want to do is store and you're an adroit database programmer, you might bypass iFS altogether. If you don't want to do any development to give users the ability to upload, download, and search for images, and you'd rather give them familiar network protocol interfaces like Windows networking and FTP than a custom application, I'd run the file system.

Table for Storing Images

Hi all,
I want to create a table for storing a particular Image file.
The image and its related details will be stored in the table.
Later on I want to retrieve it using executable report.So that for a particular Image Name i am entering, it should be displayed in the report.
Please help me.
Regards,
Sunny

Hi,
Call the FM BDS_BUSINESSDOCUMENT_CREATEF to upload the images from System.
codeLOGICAL_SYSTEM
CLASSNAME PICTURES
CLASSTYPE OT
CLIENT 321
OBJECT_KEY ZIMAGE [/code]
and the table parameter Files pass
code DOC_COUNT 00000001
COMP_COUNT 00000001
COMP_ID
DIRECTORY C:\
FILENAME WINTER.JPG
MIMETYPE
[/code]
now check it.
here you can upload multiple images inside a loop call the FM.
Regards
Kiran Sure

Folder for stored images (Portalheader)

Hello experts,
could anyone let me know where I can find all the uploaded images for the Portalheader(Masthead). Where can I find the folder who is ressponsible for the administration of the images/background images??
Thank you
Regards
Marco

Hi Marco,
You can find those uploaded image files in KM. KM is like your file server but is within the Portal that you can use to manage your files/content/data. Files, content or data exist in KM can be index and search via the Portal TREX (Search Engine).
SAP NetWeaver Training Overview - SAP Knowledge Management (KM)
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/06fac090-0201-0010-af9c-b67d14558014
1) Storing images in Portal
Storing images in Portal
2) Simple static web pages and images? Store/refernence in KM?
/thread/378997 [original link is broken]
3) Upload Image to KM Repository
/thread/26834 [original link is broken]
4) showing image located in km folder
showing image located in km folder
Hope that helps.
Ray

How can i use adobe drive/cs4 for storing images and interact this with adobe cq5.4 DAM...

Hi,
Can anybody suggest me i want use adobe drive to store images and i want to access the images for my cq5.4 instance..
I want to integrate drive to the cq5.4 dam for ignoring the dam burden on cq5 instane repository..
Is it possible to use this drive? or is there any other way i can achieve my task?
Thanks,
Sony C.

Adobe Drive software doesn't store images; it enables integration of a DAM system with Creative Suite and now Creative Cloud desktop apps.
Adobe Drive 3 is the first version of the software to support integration with Adobe's DAM. This version was designed to work with CS5 and CS5.5 apps.
We do not have a version of Drive that supports integration with CQ 5.4 DAM and CS4 apps.

ALERT: Bargain: laptop for storing images in the field

This is a slim laptop with DVD and CD burning capabilities:
http://tinyurl.com/6yq4q5
Toshiba - Satellite Laptop with Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor T2370
On sale at Best Buy through the 31st of this month. In-store only, not available online. I was able to finagle an additional 10% discount over the already amazing $430 sale price so it came to $387 plus sales tax and a $8 California "recycling fee."
DISCLAIMER: I have absolutely no connection to Toshiba or to Best Buy.
I just thought this would be a nice portable storage and archival device for photographers on the go.

Wait until you start to wander into the realms of uber-low-light photography or watch enthralled as you track a fast and erratically moving object as the camera locks on to it in 3-D and nails it time and again at 9 fps Ann. (Next spring I will finally photograph the arrival of the swallows, not the empty sky where they had just been as it has been in the past!)
 
 Those are the areas that no amount of previous experience (both digital and film) has prepared me for, though as you indicate, it's really more a progression than a learning curve.
 
 Yesterday I hand-held macro photographs at 1:1 of a tiny critter with rapidly flailing translucent feelers (or front legs?) negotiating a little blue toadstool cap no more than 1/4" across in a deep, dark forest gully (1/40, f/4.8, ISO 6400, 105mm Micro).
 
 
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 Or a drop of water with trapped air bubbles caught in a spider-web harnessed moss frond well beyond reach of my tripod up a tree-trunk, with the sun almost directly behind (1/80, f/5, ISO 800).
 
 
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 They're not the best macro results ever seen, but considering the circumstances it's something I would never have even thought to look for, let alone try to photograph pre-D3. I kept catching myself muttering "Extraordinary" under my breath as each exposure showed a result on the screen.

Data type for Saving Image in SQL database

Hi,
Which is the best way for saving images in the database? Filestream or Varbinary(max)?. Will the Varbinary max comsume much space or it will only take the actual size of the data?

I've used FILETABLE for storing images in SQL 2012
You can configure it to have transact and non transact access if you want
see
http://visakhm.blogspot.in/2012/07/working-with-filetables-in-sql-2012.html
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Storing images to persistent storage

Hi all
Does anyone know a good tutorial for storing images to persistent storage?
I am comfortable in the process of storing items such as int and string etc.
writeUTF ()
readUTF()
etc...But i cannot see how to store an image? and the inverse how to load the image back up.
Mainly my lack of knowledge hinges on the fact that I do not know how to convert an Image to a byte array and make an image from a byte array?
Then using this byte array what methods I uses from the DataOutputStream and DataInputStream for population?
If anyone knows or can help would be very grateful?
jimbobegg

For anyone concerned heres a solution I used in its own class:
public static void convertImageAndStore( Image photo, DataOutputStream daos )
 int imageWidth, imageHeight;
 imageWidth = photo.getWidth();
 imageHeight = photo.getHeight();
 int[] imgRgbData = new int[ imageWidth * imageHeight ];
 try
 photo.getRGB(imgRgbData, 0, imageWidth, 0, 0, imageWidth, imageHeight );
 //Start to write the different parts to the
 //DataOutputStream
 daos.writeInt( imageWidth );
 daos.writeInt( imageHeight );
 daos.writeInt( imgRgbData.length );
 //Serialize image and store
 //Serialize the image raw data
 for (int i=0; i<imgRgbData.length; i++)
 daos.writeInt(imgRgbData);
 catch( Exception exc )
 System.err.println( "Exception thrown by Utility::convertImageAndStore()");

What is the best method for storing/retrieving images?

Friends,
OS: RHEL AS 3
DB: 9iR2
We have some critical situation. We need to scan all our Purchase orders and to store in our pc. we don't want to store the images in the database. it will be a big headache. We have 4 branches in different cities. All the branches are connected to our local network. We have novell server in every branches to store the oracle forms and the db is centralized in our head office. The purpose is to view any PO in any branch.
so,what will be the best solution for storing the images for our archiving?
thanks & regards

Yes - a good quality external hard drive is the answer
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN

Storing images on external hard drive but using iPhoto

Hi
I am a new apple user so I'm trying to figure out how to use iPhoto. I think it's a great way to organize my photos but I've run into the problem of my hard drive getting to small for my images so I wan't to put all of my images on an external hard drive to free space on my MacBook. Can I do that and still use iPhoto to tag people and organize my pictures? Will I always have to have the hard drive connected to be able to use iPhoto or does it "cache" the images so that I can organize them but not view the full pictures?
(My iPhoto is called iPhoto '09 version 8.1.2)
Would very much appreciate a little guidance! ;-)
Angelica

Yes you can do this.
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
This means that you will always have to have the disk connected to view the pics.
You can also do it differently, where the Library is stored on the Mac and the Photos are on the external.
But...
I very strongly recommend that you do not do this. See this thread here for more on that
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3062728?tstart=0
Regards
TD

How to read the stored images

hi
i have images in my table img,
i want to know how toretreive that stored image

i have images in my table img
> i want to know how toretreive that stored image
How to retrieve it depends on how it is stored? What is the data type? Is it perhaps a blob (large object in binary format)? If so check out the package dbms_lob and read Application Developer's Guide - Large Objects. If not connect to your database using sql plus to publish the data type for the image column from the command "describe img".

When searching for an image in Finder on iMac, I found hundreds of images of printers !! All sorts of printer images which I certainly haven't loaded on.I went to Finder, File, Find and Image and there they are, hundreds,if not low thousands of them.

I was searching for an image on my Imac and when I went to Finder,File,Find and then Image, I found hundreds if not early thousand images of printers ! Amazing in one way but I didn't put them on my machine and don't really want them there.Did they come pre-loaded? Can I delete them safely? Thanks

Almost certainly, no absolutely not once you start deleting stuff like this that you think is not needed, eventually you'll trash something essential and cause yourself a lot of heartache.
There are numerous files classed as images, some will be temporary files in browser caches, others system files, others your "real" images, others files which are not really images but appear to be.
The amount of space of what I presume are essentially icons of printers will will be minimal, lets say these images are 5k in size (I guess they are much smaller?) and there are 1,000 of them, thats only 5Mb. No doubt your disk has multiple gigabytes free, eg thousands of times as much free as you'd save by deleting all of them. So you might gain back an extra 0.0001% disk space*. NOt worth the time, let alone the risk, plus then you'll get into a mindset "hmm, I dont think I can possibly need this 23byte file either I'll delete that as well etc, and then "problem......".
Where are the images stored? It may be that at some time you were searching for a new printer and these images are from that exercise (though I doubt you looked at thousands?) in which case they are in your browser cache and you can always delete that through the browser, but that space will be overwritten by other images anyway.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a motto to work by with computers.
*( or, if you really do need the (say) 5MB of disk space back because you are running out, this would only be a very temporary solution and that wont have done you any good)

Blob Problem (storing Images)

AOA!
I am working as a developer in a companey. we made a database for HRMS. In this database there is a table EMPLOYEE with a column PICTURE of type BLOB. We were using oracle 8i initially but when we migrate to oracle 9i, we are facing a problem in image storing. The situation is, database showing ur previously stored images (those have stored in oracle 8i) but when we save a new image in that table or any other table it seams to be saved but cannot retrived. I mean when we issue a query
SELECT EMP_ID FROM EMPLOYEE WHERE PICTURE IS NOT NULL;
It shows the new inserted records too (thats shows us that picture has been inserted) but when we issue query from a forms6i application it didnt show any image. In case of report, when we try to query a record which newly inserted with image, it says some thing like REPORT IS UNABLE TO SHOW IMAGE FORMATE etc.
The situation is for all table and all schema which is indicating us may be it is some thing due to oracle 9i headen technique or due to miss managment by us. we dont have DBA in our companey.
Please help us in this regard. We will be thankfull to you.
Usman Rana
Dont reply to above mantioned email my actual email account is [email protected]

I think that both your SQL is wrong and your intended use is wrong. According to the SQL reference, the following seems to be a simplified definition that seems to match what you're trying to do. UPDATE <table> SET <column> = <expr>. So PROPERTIES should be a <table> of some kind and X should be a <column> of that table. This changes your PreparedStatement to *"UPDATE PROPERTIES SET X = ? WHERE NAME = ?"* Then you can do ps.setBlob(1, b) and ps.setString(2, ...). Because your statement is DML you must do ps.executeUpdate(). So your code might look something like this.
Blob b = ...;
String x = ...;
ps = c.prepareStatement("UPDATE PROPERTIES SET X = ? WHERE NAME = ?");
ps.setBlob(1, b);
ps.setString(2, x);
int i = ps.executeUpdate();
The executeUpdate() returns the row count (i.e. number of rows) of your DML statement. Try that and see if it helps.

Af:commandImageLink not processing the aboulite path for displaying image

All,
We are required to display an image in the UI. The image is not stored in the deployed ear file. It is stored in the "*<DOMAIN_HOME>\Inventory\images*".
Where DOMAIN_HOME=D:\JUPITER_CORONA\system11.1.1.3.37.56.60\DefaultDomain\inventory
I would process an image absolute path in the af:commandImageLink tag as follows,
*<af:commandImageLink "icon=file://D:/JUPITER_CORONA/system11.1.1.3.37.56.60/DefaultDomain/inventory/images/equipment.png" text"equipment" shotdesc="icon" />*
The problem is that the above tag is not processing the above mentioned absolute path and displaying text "icon" instead of actual icon image. As per the ADF documentation the tag processes absolute path as well.
Can someone suggest as to where I am going missing.
regards,
Chandra

I was not able to get what you want very well, the situation is a little bit un-usual,
but for solution I suggest the below way.
write a servlet/JSP that return the image (it is like copying the file, read the image from absolute path and send it to the OUTPUTSTREAM of the response aslo remember the MIME and the write filter for the jsp/servlet that end with .jpg or any extension for the image.)
then in the jsf page write the below code.
<af:commandImageLink icon="/jspOrservlerpath/servlet/filename.jpg" text"equipment" shotdesc="icon" />
your servlet (get the filename.jpg and then find the file and return it)
this solution is very common for cases that the file is not available physically such as when you want to read it from another place(your case) or database.
I hope this help you.
I can send you the source for the servlet/jsp if you want.

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