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Database is a systematic collection of data. Databases support storage and manipulation of data. Databases make data management easy. Let's discuss few examples.
An online telephone directory would definitely use database to store data pertaining to people, phone numbers, other contact details, etc.
Your electricity service provider is obviously using a database to manage billing , client related issues, to handle fault data, etc.
Let's also consider the facebook. It needs to store, manipulate and present data related to members, their friends, member activities, messages, advertisements and lot more.
We can provide countless number of examples for usage of databases .
Database Management System (DBMS) is a collection of programs which enables its users to access database, manipulate data, reporting / representation of data .
It also helps to control access to the database.
Database Management Systems are not a new concept and as such had been first implemented in 1960s.
Charles Bachmen's Integrated Data Store (IDS) is said to be the first DBMS in history.
With time database technologies evolved a lot while usage and expected functionalities of databases have been increased immensely.
Let's see how the DBMS family got evolved with the time. Following diagram shows the evolution of DBMS categories.
There are 4 major types of DBMS. Let's look into them in detail.
1. What is a database? |
2. What are the different types of databases? |
3. What is a relational database management system (RDBMS)? |
4. What is SQL and how is it used in databases? |
5. What are the advantages of using a database management system? |
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