A multimedia database management system (MM-DBMS) manages different types of data in various formats across multiple media sources. Like traditional DBMS, an MM-DBMS provides integration, data independence, concurrency control, persistence, privacy, integrity control, and recovery. Additionally, an MM-DBMS can uniformly query different data formats, simultaneously query across media sources, retrieve media smoothly, and develop presentations from query answers that satisfy quality of service requirements. Multimedia databases support applications like video on demand, medical information systems, and public protection systems, but consume more storage and processing than traditional databases. Current research focuses on high performance and fast partitioning of compressed and uncompressed video.