Abstract
Software systems generally have an architecture, ie. possessing of a structure (form) and organisation (function). The former describes identifiable components and how they relate to one another structurally; the latter describes how the functions of the various structural components interact to provide the overall functionality of the system as a whole. Since a database system is basically a software system (albeit complex), it too possesses an architecture. A typical architecture must define a particular configuration of and interaction between data, software modules, meta-data, interfaces and languages (see Figure 11-1).
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Benyon D. Information and Data-Modelling (2nd. Edition), Mc Graw Hill (1997).
Date, C.J. Introduction to Database Systems (6th Edition), Addison-Wesley Publ. company (1995).
Date, C.J. A Guide to the SQL Standard. (3rd Edition), Addison-Wesley Publ. company (1993).
Elmaseri, K. and Navathe, D. Fundamentals of Database Systems (2nd. Edition), Benjamin / Cumming (1994).
Kroenke D.M. Database Processing. (5th. Edition), Prentice Hall (1995).
Silverston L., Inmon W. H. and Graziano K. The Data Model Resource Book: A Library of Logical Data Models and Data Warehouse Designs, John Willey & Sons (1997).
Smith, P.D. and Barnes, M.G. Files and Databases: An Introduction, Addison-Wesley Publ. company (1987).
Ullmann, J.D. Principles Of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems, Volume I: Classical Database Systems, Computer Science Press (1988).
Ullmann, J.D. and Widom, S. A First Course in Database Systems, Prentice Hall (1997).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1998 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Maurer, H., Scherbakov, N., Halim, Z., Razak, Z. (1998). Architecture of Database Systems. In: From Databases to Hypermedia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58763-4_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58763-4_11
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-63754-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-58763-4
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive