Information related to operations of an enterprise is stored inside this database. Functional lines like marketing, employee relations, customer service etc. require such kind of databases.

These are used for large sets of distributed data. There are some big data performance issues which are effectively handled by relational databases, such kind of issues are easily managed by NoSQL databases. There are very efficient in analyzing large size unstructured data that may be stored at multiple virtual servers of the cloud.

These are the paid versions of the huge databases designed uniquely for the users who want to access the information for help. These databases are subject specific, and one cannot afford to maintain such a huge information. Access to such databases is provided through commercial links.

The end user is usually not concerned about the transaction or operations done at various levels and is only aware of the product which may be a software or an application. Therefore, this is a shared database which is specifically designed for the end user, just like different levels’ managers. Summary of whole information is collected in this database.

Data is collected and stored on personal computers which are small and easily manageable. The data is generally used by the same department of an organization and is accessed by a small group of people.

In a Relationship, Participation constraint specifies the existence of an entity when it is related to another entity in a relationship type. It is also called minimum cardinality constraint.This constraint specifies the number of instances of an entity that can participate in a relationship type.There are two types of Participation constraint −Total ParticipationEach entity in the entity set is involved in at least one relationship in a relationship set i.e. the number of relationship in every entity is involved is greater than 0.Consider two entities Employee and Department related via Works_For relationship. Now, every Employee works in at least one ... Read More

In Ternary relationship three different Entities takes part in a Relationship.Relationship Degree = 3For Example: Consider a Mobile manufacture company.Three different entities involved:Mobile - Manufactured by company. Part - Mobile Part which company get from Supplier. Supplier - Supplier supplies Mobile parts to Company.Mobile, Part and Supplier will participate simultaneously in a relationship. because of this fact when we consider cardinality we need to consider it in the context of two entities simultaneously relative to third entity.Cardinality in Ternary RelationshipSay for a given instance of Supplier and an Instance of Part, can that supplier supply that particular part for multiple Mobile models.Example ... Read More

A Binary Relationship is the relationship between two different Entities i.e. it is a relationship of role group of one entity with the role group of another entity.There are three types of cardinalities for Binary Relationships −1. One-to-One2. One-to-many3. Many-to-ManyOne-to-OneHere one role group of one entity is mapped to one role group of another entity. In simple terms one instance of one entity is mapped with only one instance of another entity.In this type the primary key of one entity must be available as foreign key in other entity.For example − consider two entities Person and Driver_License.Person has the information about ... Read More

A One-to-Many Unary Relationship is the association with the same entity between the same instances represented by different role groups.Consider the relationship between Managers and Employees.The two different Roles in this relationship are- Managers and Employees. Only few Employees take the role of Managers within an organization while everyone working for an organization is an Employee.One Manager manages multiple Employees and each Manager is also an Employee. One-to-Many Optional-MandatoryEach instance of one role group must participate in the relationship while instance of other role group can optionally participate in the relationship. The Role of Manager satisfies the optional participation as there are ... Read More

A One-to-One Unary Relationship is the association with the same entity between the same instances represented by same role group.Above figure represents a set of married persons with the relationship MARRIED_TO. Each person is married to only one and only one person in the group.In One-to-One Unary we have three cases available −Mandatory-MandatoryOptional-OptionalOptional-Mandatory or Mandatory-OptionalMandatory-MandatoryEach instance of the role group must fully participate in the relationship. In the above example a Person is married to one and only one Person.Optional-OptionalIn this case the participation of a instance within a role group is optional i.e. the participation is not mandatory.In the ... Read More