Concise Guide to Databases: A Practical Introduction

✍ Scribed by Peter Lake, Paul Crowther (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This easy-to-read textbook/reference presents a comprehensive introduction to databases, opening with a concise history of databases and of data as an organisational asset. As relational database management systems are no longer the only database solution, the book takes a wider view of database technology, encompassing big data, NoSQL, object and object-relational and in-memory databases. The text also examines the issues of scalability, availability, performance and security encountered when building and running a database in the real world. Topics and features: presents review and discussion questions at the end of each chapter, in addition to skill-building, hands-on exercises; introduces the fundamental concepts and technologies in database systems, placing these in an historic context; describes the challenges faced by database professionals; reviews the use of a variety of database types in business environments; discusses areas for further research within this fast-moving domain.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Data, an Organisational Asset....Pages 3-19
A History of Databases....Pages 21-40
Physical Storage and Distribution....Pages 41-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Relational Databases....Pages 69-96
NoSQL Databases....Pages 97-134
Big Data....Pages 135-159
Object and Object Relational Databases....Pages 161-182
In-Memory Databases....Pages 183-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Database Scalability....Pages 201-219
Database Availability....Pages 221-239
Database Performance....Pages 241-282
Security....Pages 283-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-307

✦ Subjects

Database Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems