About this document

Introduction to Database Systems by Cheikh Salmi is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document introduces databases and database management systems (DBMS). It discusses the history of databases from hierarchical and network models to relational and object-oriented models. It also defines what a database is, the components of a DBMS including languages and systems for definitions, manipulations, queries, security, and more. Advantages of DBMS are control of redundancy, consistency, integrity and disadvantages can include complexity, size, costs and performance issues.

Author

Cheikh Salmi

Language

EN