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DBMS (cont.)
Main abstractions
Data independence: users can ignore the details of the internal representation; users are not
concerned with how to access data
Atomicity of transactions: users can safely ignore other users concurrently using the same
data
Independence of physical location
Main components
Query component
Indexing
Concurrency Control
Buffer Management
Logs and Recovery
Memory Management
DBMS Architecture
External level
Conceptual level
Internal level
Data