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What Is DBMS?: Distributed Database Management System

A DBMS is software that manages databases and allows users to create, read, update and delete data. It optimizes data organization and provides benefits over file systems like flexibility and complex backups. The most widely used types are relational, distributed, hierarchical, object-oriented and network DBMS. Popular DBMS include Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server. Organizations need to monitor and optimize databases to ensure high performance as databases grow large.

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What Is DBMS?: Distributed Database Management System

A DBMS is software that manages databases and allows users to create, read, update and delete data. It optimizes data organization and provides benefits over file systems like flexibility and complex backups. The most widely used types are relational, distributed, hierarchical, object-oriented and network DBMS. Popular DBMS include Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server. Organizations need to monitor and optimize databases to ensure high performance as databases grow large.

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What is DBMS?

Database Management Systems (DBMS) are software systems used to store, retrieve, and run
queries on data. A DBMS serves as an interface between an end-user and a database, allowing
users to create, read, update, and delete data in the database.

DBMS manage the data, the database engine, and the database schema, allowing for data to be
manipulated or extracted by users and other programs. This helps provide data security, data
integrity, concurrency, and uniform data administration procedures.

DBMS optimizes the organization of data by following a database schema design technique
called normalization, which splits a large table into smaller tables when any of its attributes have
redundancy in values. DBMS offer many benefits over traditional file systems, including
flexibility and a more complex backup system.

Database management systems can be classified based on a variety of criteria such as the data
model, the database distribution, or user numbers. The most widely used types of DBMS
software are relational, distributed, hierarchical, object-oriented, and network.

Distributed database management system

A distributed DBMS is a set of logically interrelated databases distributed over a network that is
managed by a centralized database application. This type of DBMS synchronizes data
periodically and ensures that any change to data is universally updated in the database.

Hierarchical database management system

Hierarchical databases organize model data in a tree-like structure. Data storage is either a top-
down or bottom-up format and is represented using a parent-child relationship.

Network database management system

The network database model addresses the need for more complex relationships by allowing
each child to have multiple parents. Entities are organized in a graph that can be accessed
through several paths.

Relational database management system

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) are the most popular data model because of
its user-friendly interface. It is based on normalizing data in the rows and columns of the tables.
This is a viable option when you need a data storage system that is scalable, flexible, and able to
manage lots of information.
Object-oriented database management system

Object-oriented models store data in objects instead of rows and columns. It is based on object-
oriented programming (OOP) that allows objects to have members such as fields, properties, and
methods.

Examples of DBMS
There is a wide range of database software solutions, including both enterprise and open source
solutions, available for database management.

Here are some of the most popular database management systems:

Oracle

Oracle Database is a commercial relational database management system. It utilizes enterprise-


scale database technology with a robust set of features right out of the box. It can be stored in the
cloud or on-premises.

Learn how AppDynamics helps with Oracle monitoring

MySQL

MySQL is a relational database management system that is commonly used with open-source
content management systems and large platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube.

Learn how AppDynamics helps with MySQL monitoring

SQL Server

Developed by Microsoft, SQL Server is a relational database management system built on top of
structured query language (SQL), a standardized programming language that allows database
administrators to manage databases and query data.

Learn how AppDynamics helps with SQL server monitoring

Optimizing database performance


For large organizations, databases contain mission-critical record items that have complex
logical relationships with a myriad of other datasets that grow with the amount of users. As a
result, organizations need to actively monitor, tune, and improve their databases to ensure a high
level of performance.

Several key factors influence database performance, including system resources, workload,
throughput, contention, and optimization. Without a database monitoring tool, it is difficult to
accurately assess how each of these factors impact database performance and have a longer
lasting impact on application as well as business performance.

Learn how AppDynamics helps with all types of database monitoring

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