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This week's discussion is all about identifying and evaluating databases and data usage in the real world.
This week's discussion is all about identifying and evaluating databases and data usage in the real world. As a systems analyst, database administrator, or other member of the information systems development team, you will often be required to examine and evaluate existing databases and suggestions for new ones.
In every week of this course, there will be an in-class discussion in two parts. You must respond to both parts to be considered for a full credit. Part 1 explains what you should do in your initial post and part 2 explains how you should respond to your classmates.
Part 1
Think about all of the information systems you interact with every day. Select one and do some research into the technologies behind it. Specifically, answer the following questions. You may not be able to find answers for all of them (organizations don't often make such details public), so select ones that has lots of public documentation (e.g., something from Google or Facebook) and answer as best you can. You may have to dig quite deeply into system documentation to find the answers.
- What is the system's name and purpose?
- Is it supported by a relational database, hierarchical database, NoSQL database, or something else?
- Does it use any kind of replication or load balancing?
- Is it backed up? How often?
- Is it Web-based? A smartphone app? Something else?
- What technologies are used for the application (i.e., the part you interact with)? Is it HTML and PHP? NET? ObjectiveC? Something else?
- Determine the benefits and drawbacks of the above technologies and design choices that the developers of the system made. Do you agree with them? Why or why not? What risks or tradeoffs did the developers have to deal with when they made these decisions?
