TYPES OF

DATABASE
 DBMS can be used to create
many different types of database.

Database can be classified

according to:
TYPES OF • Number of users
DATABASE •
•
Location
Type of data stored
• How they will be used
• The time sensitivity of the information
gathered
• The degree to which the data is
structured
 • ACCORDING TO NUMBER OF USERS
• Single User Database
• Supports one user at a time. It runs in a personal
computer called desktop database.
• Multi User Database
• Supports multiple users at the same time.
Types of • Workgroup database
• supports a relatively small number of
Database users or specific department within the
organization. Usually less than 50 users.
• Enterprise database
• Supports the entire organization and supports
many user usually greater than 50 users, even
hundreds across many departments.
Types of Database

• ACCORDING TO LOCATION
• Centralized database
• Database that supports data located at a single site.
• Distributed database
• Supports data distributed across several different sites.
Types of Database

• ACCORDING TO TYPE OF DATA STORED

• General Purpose database
• Contains a wide variety of data used in multiple discipline
• Discipline Specific database
• Contains data focused on specific subject areas usually used mainly for academic
and research purposes.
Types of Database

• ACCORDING TO HOW THEY WILL BE USED AND ON THE TIME SENSITIVITY OF THE INFORMATION
GATHERED
• Operational Database
• Database that is designed primarily to support the company’s day to day operations
• It is also known as Online Transaction Processing, transactional, or production database
• Analytical Database
• It is focused primarily on storing historical data and business metrics used exclusively for
tactical or strategic decision making.
• It requires extensive “data massaging” (data manipulation) to produce information on which to
base pricing decisions, sales forecast, market strategies, and so on.
• It allows the end user to perform advanced data analysis of business data using sophisticated
tools.
Types of Database

• Analytical database
• 2 main Components
• Data warehouse
• A specialized database that stores data in a format optimized fro decision support.
• Contains historical data obtained from operational databases as well as data from the external
sources.
• Online Analytical Processing (OAP)
• A set of tools that work together to provide advanced data analysis environment for
retrieving, processing, and modeling data from the data warehouse.
• Also known as BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE – describe a comprehensive approach to capture and
process business data with the purpose of generating information to support decision making.
Types of Database

• THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE DATA IS STRUCTURED

• XML Database
• It supports the storage and management of semi structured XML
data.
• It is made from XML (Extensible Mark Up Language) that is special
language used to represent and manipulate data elements in text
format.
• Example of XML data – email, memo, documents
Types of Database

• SPECIALIZED DATABASE
• NoSQL database (Not Only SQL)
• A new generation of database management systems that is not
based on the traditional relational database model. (will be discuss
in techno..)
• Social media uses this kind of specialized database.
• Social Media – Web and mobile technologies that enable
“anywhere, anytime, always on” human interactions. It captures
vast amount of data about end users and consumers.
 SUMMARY
Types of Database Typical Number of Users Typical Architecture Typical Size of Database
Personal 1 Desktop/laptop computer, Megabytes
PDA

Workgroup 5-25 Client/server (two-tier) Megabytes-gigabytes

Department/ Division 25-100 Client/server (three-tier) Gigabytes
Enterprise >100 Client/server (distributed or Gigabytes-terabytes
parallel server)

Web-enabled >1000 Web server and application Megabytes-gigabytes

servers
 TYPES OF DATABASE

NUMBER OF USERS DATA LOCATION DATA USAGE XML

MULTIUSER WEB
SINGLE CENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTED OPERATIONAL ANALYTICAL ENABLED
USER DATABASE
WORKGROUP ENTERPRISE
PRODUCT
MS ACCESS X X X X

MS SQL SERVER X3 X X X X X X X

IBM, DB2 X3 X X X X X X X

MySQL X X X X X X X X

ORACLE X3 X X X X X X X
RDBMS
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