It has to be mentioned that all the features of the database itself can be applied to
the InterMedia as well, like encryption, auditing access, backup and recovery, data
replication, archiving. One of the most important operations in managing high amounts of
multimedia data is the creation of data warehouses: features like materialized views and
summary management offer a very high speed in information analysis and retrieval. Data
warehouses users and applications can search for patterns in order to create/associate and
retrieve summary information, which depends on the filter applied to images data, which is
used in the search operations.