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  title info:
    title: Concise Guide to Databases
    sub title: A Practical Introduction
  name:
    name part: Lake, Peter.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Crowther, Paul.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 307 p. 113 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Modern businesses depend on data for their very survival, creating a need for sophisticated databases and database technologies to help store, organise and transport their valuable data. 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 Suggests a structure for a potential university course in the preface With its learning-by-doing approach, supported by both theoretical and practical examples, this clearly-structured textbook will be of great value to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of computer science, software engineering, and information technology. Practising database professionals and application developers will also find the book an ideal reference that addresses today's business needs.
  table of contents: Part I: Databases in Context -- Data: An Organisational Asset -- The History of Databases -- Physical Storage and Distribution -- Part II: Database Types -- Relational: The Start of the Modern Era in Databases -- NoSQL: Column-Based and Document-Based Databases -- Big Data -- Object and Object-Relational -- In-Memory Databases -- Part III: What Database Professionals Worry About -- Scalability -- Availability -- Performance -- Security.
  note: by Peter Lake, Paul Crowther.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Software engineering
  subject:
    topic: Data structures (Computer science)
  subject:
    topic: Database management
  subject:
    topic: Information storage and retrieval
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Database Management
  subject:
    topic: Information Storage and Retrieval
  subject:
    topic: Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory
  subject:
    topic: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
  classification: QA76.9.D3
  classification: 005.74
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
  identifier: 9781447156017
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5601-7
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    record creation date: 131122
    record change date: 20151103130026.0
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