Content management involves storing more than just names and numbers in the database. You can store images, audio, video, mapping data, and documents, collectively known as unstructured data. Documents can be binary format or XML. You can run searches across all these kinds of data.

Oracle interMedia lets you write applications to manipulate images, audio, and video within the database:

You can store XML content in the database, and write applications to process it and use it as a data interchange format:

You can store unlimited amounts of text and binary data using Oracle's large object (LOB) types. The data cartridge framework lets you integrate your own complex data types into Oracle's query and index operations.

Oracle Text turns the database into a search engine. You can search for text in regular columns, for text inside various kinds of binary-format documents, and for text, tags, and attributes inside XML documents.

Oracle Ultra Search, built on top of Oracle Text, lets you customize and manage a search engine for database content.

Oracle Spatial lets you store geospatial data and write mapping applications.