W.B.C.S. Examination Notes On – Characteristics Of Database Management System – Computer Science Notes.

  • Provides security and removes redundancy.Continue Reading W.B.C.S. Examination Notes On – Characteristics Of Database Management System – Computer Science Notes.
  • Self-describing nature of a database system
  • Insulation between programs and data abstraction
  • Support of multiple views of the data
  • Sharing of data and multiuser transaction processing
  • DBMS allows entities and relations among them to form tables.
  • It follows the ACID concept ( Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability).
  • DBMS supports multi-user environment that allows users to access and manipulate data in parallel.

DBMS vs. Flat File

DBMS Flat File Management System
Multi-user access It does not support multi-user access
Design to fulfill the need for small and large businesses It is only limited to smaller DBMS system.
Remove redundancy and Integrity Redundancy and Integrity issues
Expensive. But in the long term Total Cost of Ownership is cheap It’s cheaper
Easy to implement complicated transactions No support for complicated transactions

Users in a DBMS environment

Following, are the various category of users of a DBMS system

Component Name Task
Application Programmers The Application programmers write programs in various programming languages to interact with databases.
Database Administrators Database Admin is responsible for managing the entire DBMS system. He/She is called Database admin or DBA.
End-Users The end users are the people who interact with the database management system. They conduct various operations on database like retrieving, updating, deleting, etc.

Popular DBMS Software

Here, is the list of some popular DBMS system:

  • MySQL
  • Microsoft Access
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • dBASE
  • FoxPro
  • SQLite
  • IBM DB2
  • LibreOffice Base
  • MariaDB
  • Microsoft SQL Server etc.

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