Database
HISTORY OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
With the progress in technology in the areas of processors, computer memory, computer storage and computer networks, the sizes, capabilities, and performance of databases and their respective DBMSs have grown in orders of magnitudes.
The development of database technology can be divided into three eras based on data model or structure: navigational, SQL/relational, and post-relational. The two main early navigational data models were the hierarchical model, epitomized by IBM's IMS system, and the Codasyl model (Network model), implemented in a number of products such as IDMS.
The relational model, first proposed in 1970 by Edgar F. Codd, departed from this tradition by insisting that applications should search for data by content, rather than by following links. The relational model is made up of ledger-style tables, each used for a different type of entity. It was not until the mid-1980s that computing hardware became powerful enough to allow relational systems (DBMSs plus applications) to be widely deployed. By the early 1990s, however, relational systems were dominant for all large-scale data processing applications, and they remain dominant today (2012) except in niche areas. The dominant database language is the standard SQL for the relational model, which has influenced database languages for other data models.
Object databases were invented in the 1980s to overcome the inconvenience of object-relational impedance mismatch, which led to the coining of the term "post-relational" but also development of hybrid object-relational databases.
The next generation of post-relational databases in the 2000s became known as NoSQL databases, introducing fast key-value storesand document-oriented databases. A competing "next generation" known as NewSQL databases attempted new implementations that retained the relational/SQL model while aiming to match the high performance of NoSQL compared to commercially available relational
With the progress in technology in the areas of processors, computer memory, computer storage and computer networks, the sizes, capabilities, and performance of databases and their respective DBMSs have grown in orders of magnitudes.
The development of database technology can be divided into three eras based on data model or structure: navigational, SQL/relational, and post-relational. The two main early navigational data models were the hierarchical model, epitomized by IBM's IMS system, and the Codasyl model (Network model), implemented in a number of products such as IDMS.
The relational model, first proposed in 1970 by Edgar F. Codd, departed from this tradition by insisting that applications should search for data by content, rather than by following links. The relational model is made up of ledger-style tables, each used for a different type of entity. It was not until the mid-1980s that computing hardware became powerful enough to allow relational systems (DBMSs plus applications) to be widely deployed. By the early 1990s, however, relational systems were dominant for all large-scale data processing applications, and they remain dominant today (2012) except in niche areas. The dominant database language is the standard SQL for the relational model, which has influenced database languages for other data models.
Object databases were invented in the 1980s to overcome the inconvenience of object-relational impedance mismatch, which led to the coining of the term "post-relational" but also development of hybrid object-relational databases.
The next generation of post-relational databases in the 2000s became known as NoSQL databases, introducing fast key-value storesand document-oriented databases. A competing "next generation" known as NewSQL databases attempted new implementations that retained the relational/SQL model while aiming to match the high performance of NoSQL compared to commercially available relational