Overview
- Includes numerous examples to support the description of both business and technical issues
- Introduces a range of commercial databases and encourages the reader to experiment with these in an associated learning environment
- Presents a mixture of both theory and practical elements
- Updated and expanded new edition, featuring a larger range of database types and applications, and new material on database adaptiveness, integration, and efficiency in relation to data growth
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Databases in Context
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Front Matter
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What Database Professionals Worry About
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Keywords
About this book
This updated and expanded, 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. Presenting both theoretical and practical elements, the new edition 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 toskill-building, hands-on exercises
- Provides new material on database adaptiveness, integration, and efficiency in relation to data growth
- Introduces a range of commercial databases and encourages the reader to experiment with these in an associated learning environment
- Reviews use of a variety of databases in business environments, including numerous examples
- Discusses areas for further research within this fast-moving domain
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Peter Lake (now retired) was formerly Course Leader for the Oracle IT&M MSc and the IT Professional MSc at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His other Springer publications include Information Systems Management in the Big Data Era and Guide to Cloud Computing.
Paul Crowther (now retired) was formerly Head of Postgraduate (taught programmes) in the Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Concise Guide to Databases
Book Subtitle: A Practical Introduction
Authors: Konstantinos Domdouzis, Peter Lake, Paul Crowther
Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42224-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42223-3Published: 21 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42224-0Published: 20 May 2021
Series ISSN: 1863-7310
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIII, 400
Number of Illustrations: 162 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour
Topics: Database Management, Data Structures and Information Theory, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems