- Single-user database supports only one user at a time
- Multiuser database supports multiple users at the same time
- Workgroup database supports a small number
- Enterprise database supports a large number
- Centralized database: data located at a single site
- Distributed database: data distributed across several different sites
- Operational database: supports a company’s day-to-day operations(Transactional or production database )
- Data warehouse: stores data used for tactical or strategic decisions
- Unstructured data exist in their original state
- Semistructured data have been processed to some extent
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) represents data elements in textual format
- XML database supports semistructur
Databases can be classified according to:
–Number of users
–Database location(s)
–Expected type and extent of use
Written by : Mohammed Alaslani
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