This document provides an overview of database management systems (DBMS). It discusses that DBMS allow for the storage and management of large amounts of data and define logical structures for that data through schemas. The document outlines the key components of a DBMS, including its ability to store data persistently, provide programming interfaces to access data, and support concurrent access through transaction management. It also summarizes the evolution of DBMS from early file-based systems to modern client-server architectures that can handle multimedia and large datasets.

1. SM FAROOQ
Research Scholar, Yogi Vemana University, India.
e-mail: shaikfaroq@gmail.com

2.  Introduction
 The Evolution of Database Systems
 Overview of a Database Management System

3.  Today Databases are essential in every business.
 Databases are core of many scientific
investigations.
 They represent the data gathered by
astronomers, by investigators of the human
genome, by biochemists exploring the medicinal
properties of proteins.

4.  Database Management System is a powerful
tool for creating and managing large amounts of
data efficiently and allowing it to persist over
long periods safely.

5. 1. Persistent storage : stores large amount of data.
2. Programming interface : allows access data through
query language.
3. Transaction management : supports concurrent
access to data.
◦ Isolation – transaction executes one at a time.
◦ Atomicity – transaction executes either completely
or not at all.
◦ Durability – the ability to recover from failures or
errors.

6. What is a database?
In essence a database is nothing more than a
collection of information that exists over a long
period of time, often many years. In common
parlance, the term database refers to a collection
of data that is managed by a DBMS.
(or)
Collection of interrelated data.

7. 1. Allow users to create new databases and specify their schema
(logical structure of the data), using a specialized language called a
data-definition language.
2. Give users the ability to query the data and modify the data, using a
query language or data-manipulation language.
3. Support the storage of very large amounts of data — keeping it
secure from accident or unauthorized use.
4. Control access to data from many users at once.

8.  File system store data over a long time and allows
storage of large amount of data but do not guarantee
that data cannot be lost.
 File system does not directly supports query language.
 File system is limited to support to schema creation by
just allowing to create directory structures.
 There is no control access to data in case of multiple
users accessing at once.

9.  Airline reservation systems
 Banking systems
 Corporate records

10.  The early DBMS’s evolving from file system
encouraged users to visualize data much as it was
stored.
 These database systems make use of data
models for describing the structure of the
information in a database.
 The example data models are hierarchical , tree
based model, graph based network model etc .

11. accountNoaccountNo balancebalance typetype
1234512345 1000.001000.00 savingssavings
6789067890 2846.922846.92 checkingchecking
…… …… ……
attributes
relation (table)
tuple (row)
Ted Codd proposed that database systems should present the
user with a view of data organized as tables called relations.

12.  Suppose we want to know the balance of
account number 12345 ?
 suppose we want to know the savings
accounts with negative balances ??
Some Queries?

13. SELECT balance
FROM Accounts
WHERE accountNo = 67890;
SELECT accountNo
FROM Accounts
WHERE type = 'savings' AND balance < 0;

14.  Smaller and Smaller Systems
 Bigger and Bigger Systems (terabytes, peta
bytes, secondary storage devices, tertiary
storage devices, parallel computing)
 Client-Server and Multi-Tier Architectures
(application server)
 Multimedia Data.
 Information Integration (legacy databases, data
warehouses, data mining)

15.  Now it is quiet feasible to run a DBMS on a
personal computer.
 Thus database systems based relational model
have become available for even very small
machines to appear as a common tool for
computer applications much as spreadsheets and
word processors did before them.

16.  Corporate databases often occupies hundreds of
gigabytes of data. Eg. Ratail chains stores terabytes of
information recording the history of every sale made over
long period of time.
 Database stores data which occupies huge amount of
space like audio, video (giga bytes), images from
satellites ( peta bytes) .
 Handling such large amount of data requires several
technological advancement.

17.  Many varieties of modern software use a client-
server architecture in which request by one
process ( the client) are sent to another process
(the server) .
 Database system also implements client/server
architecture.

18. Simple Client/ server
environment
Three tier Client/ server
environment

19.  Multi media data includes video, audio, radar
signals, satellite images, documents and pictures.
 The storage of multimedia data has forced DBMS
to expand in several ways.
 To allow the users to create and use complex data
operations such as image processing DBMSs has
to incorporate the ability of users to introduce
functions of their own choosing.

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21.  Legacy databases.
 Data warehouses.
 Data mining – data analysis.
 Example: To find out patterns to increase sales.

22. index, file and record request
Query compiler
Execution engine
Index/file/record manager
Buffer manager
Storage manager
Storage
Transaction
manager
Logging and
recovery
Buffers
DDL
compiler
Concurrency
control
Lock
table
User/application Database administratortransaction commands
queries, updates
query plan
page commands
read/write pages
DDL commands
log pages
metadata
metadata,
statistics
data,
metadata,
indexes

23.  Single boxes indicate system components and
double boxes indicate in-memory data structures.
 Solid lines indicates control and data flow and
dashed lines indicates only data flow.
 At the top the two distinct sources of commands to
DBMSs.
i) Conventional users/application programmers
ii) A database administrator.
Overview of a
DBMS

24.  DDL Commands to create schema and to alter
schema.
 The DDL commands are parsed by a DDL
processor and passed to the execution engine,
which then goes through the index/file/record
manager to alter the metadata , i.e the schema
information for the database.
 The query is parsed and optimized by a query
compiler.
 The execution engine issues a sequence of
requests for small pieces of data to resource
manager that knows about data files, the format
and size of records in those files, and index files
which find elements of data files quickly.

25.  The requests for data are translated into pages
and these requests are passed to the buffer
manager.
 The buffer manager communicates with a storage
manager to get data from a disk.
 Queries and other DML actions are grouped into
transactions, which are units that must be
executed atomically and in isolation from one
another.
 The execution of transactions must be durable.

26. durability
Atomicity &
Isolation

27.  A concurrency control manager or scheduler
responsible for assuring atomicity and isolation of
transactions.
 A logging and recovery manager, responsible for
the durability of transactions.

28.  To control the placement of data on disk and its
movement between disk and main memory.
 Keeps track the location of files on the disk and
obtains the block(s) containing the file on request
from the buffer manager.

29.  Responsible for partitioning the available main
memory into buffers, which are page sized regions
into which disk blocks can be transferred.
 All DBMS components that need information like
data, metadata, statistics and indexes from the
disk will interact with the buffers and buffer
manager either directly or through the execution
engine.

30.  A transaction is a unit of work that must be
executed atomically and in apparent isolation from
other transactions. And the completed transaction
data will never be lost.
 A transaction manger accepts transaction
commands from an application which tells when
the transaction begin and end and expectation of
application.
 Tasks of transaction manager --Logging
Concurrency Control
Deadlock resolution

31. A stands for "atomicity," the all-or-nothing execution of
transactions.
C stands for "consistency." That is, all databases have
consistency constraints, or expectations about
relationships among data elements (e.g., account
balances may not be negative). Transactions are
expected to preserve the consistency of the database.
I stands for ''isolation," the fact that each transaction must
appear to be executed as if no other transaction is
executing at the same time.
D stands for "durability," the condition that the effect on the
database of a transaction must never be lost, once the
transaction has completed.

32.  The query compiler translates query into an
internal form called a query plan. The sequence of
operations to be performed on the data. Often the
operations in the query plan are the
implementations of “relational algebra operations”

33. ER Model

34. Relational Model

35. SQL