Fundamental to the success of a growing number of database applications is the storage and management of large data objects such as images, multimedia and scanned documents along with standard text and character string data types. OptiLink from Consistency Point Technologies (CPT) has been specifically designed to integrate database systems (RDBMS and Object-RDBMS) with optical storage sub-systems and metadata to create a unified information framework. OptiLink provides unparalleled object management, integrity, access performance and information asset control. OptiLink is especially suited to any organization that needs to manage online documents, multimedia, images and other information from a variety of data sources within a single information management framework.