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External Level: Technology

This document summarizes the three levels of a database management system architecture: the external, conceptual, and internal levels. The external level allows users to view desired data without knowing database schema details. The conceptual level describes data relationships and security. The internal level describes how data is physically stored on storage devices and allocated space. It also compares characteristics of structured versus unstructured data such as technology used, transaction management, flexibility, scalability, data types, and data residence. Finally, it provides links about NoSQL database types and dimensional modeling.

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External Level: Technology

This document summarizes the three levels of a database management system architecture: the external, conceptual, and internal levels. The external level allows users to view desired data without knowing database schema details. The conceptual level describes data relationships and security. The internal level describes how data is physically stored on storage devices and allocated space. It also compares characteristics of structured versus unstructured data such as technology used, transaction management, flexibility, scalability, data types, and data residence. Finally, it provides links about NoSQL database types and dimensional modeling.

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This architecture has three levels:

1. External level
2. Conceptual level
3. Internal level

1. External level
It is also called view level. The reason this level is called “view” is because
several users can view their desired data from this level which is internally
fetched from database with the help of conceptual and internal level mapping.

The user doesn’t need to know the database schema details such as data
structure, table definition etc. user is only concerned about data which is what
returned back to the view level after it has been fetched from database
(present at the internal level).

External level is the “top level” of the Three Level DBMS Architecture.

2. Conceptual level
It is also called logical level. The whole design of the database such as
relationship among data, schema of data etc. are described in this level.

Database constraints and security are also implemented in this level of


architecture. This level is maintained by DBA (database administrator).

3. Internal level
This level is also known as physical level. This level describes how the data is
actually stored in the storage devices. This level is also responsible for
allocating space to the data. This is the lowest level of the architecture.

Difference between structured data and unstructured data

 Technology

Structured data technology is based on a Relational database table


whereas unstructured data technology is based on character and binary
data.

 Transaction Management
You will see the matured transactions and different concurrency techniques
in structured data. On the other hand, in unstructured data, there is no
transaction management and no concurrency.

 Flexibility

Structured data is less flexible and dependent on schema whereas


unstructured data is very flexible and not dependent on schema which
means the absence of schema.

 Scalability

In structured data, it’s very difficult to scale database schema. On the


contrary, unstructured data is easily scalable.

 Characteristics

Structured data is pre-defined data models, usually text only, and easy to
search whereas unstructured data is no pre-defined data model, it may
come in text, images, sound, videos, or other formats, and it is also difficult
to search, unlike structured data.

 Reside in

The place of structured data is relational database and data warehouse on


the other hand; unstructured data resides in applications, NoSQL database,
data warehouse, and data lakes.

NoSQL Database Types


https://studio3t.com/knowledge-
base/articles/nosql-database-types/

Dimensioanl Modelling
https://www.guru99.com/dimensional-model-data-warehouse.html

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