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Write an essay about "database" like introduce it or its advantages, developments etc.
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Running head: DATABASE
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Database
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DATABASE
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Introduction
A database is a compendium of information, usually stored in a computer, which is
organized and makes it easy to search, access, manage and update it (O’Neil, 2014). This
information or rather data could be in the form of reports, graphics, texts, tables and scripts
representing nearly every kind of information (Piattini & Diaz, 2000).
Evolution and Developments of Database
The evolution of databases has been eminent since their inception in the 1960s. The
evolution starts with the hierarchical and network databases. They were followed by objectoriented databases in the 1980s and presently have SQL and NoSQL databases and cloud
databases. The classification of databases can be classified according to the type of content.
They include bibliographic, images, full text and numeric. It is slightly different in computing
as it classifies according to their organizational approach sometimes (O’Neil, 2014). There are
many different kinds of databases, ranging from the most prevalent approach, the relational
database, to a distributed database, cloud...