Emerging Database Technologies and Security Aspects

Database developments
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Introduction
Database industry has been undergoing through waves of changes in recent past. These
waves of changes have been engineered by technological advancements and the need to make
database development and maintenance simple, reliable and efficient. It is important for database
developers, architects and IT specialist to understand some of these changes so that they are
prepared for any changes (Wang et al., 2012). These technologies range from database
development, maintenance and security. In this case, discussion would be based on emerging
database technologies and security aspects of keeping organizational data secure, available and
consistent.
Recent database development technologies
First, database development has been changing as a result of engineered database
systems. In this case, developers do not need to start from scratch when developing database
management system (DBMS). To save time and energy required in database development, oracle
has tried to integrate both hardware and software with aim of optimizing oracle database
performance (Feng et al., 2011). In this case, oracle has been moving all user query processing
direct to the integrated systems in order to make analysis much faster. The next technology
approach is in-memory database which make use of data structures and algorithms indented to
only manage in-memory database operations. With in-memory database development aspect,
organizational database are able to run faster compared to hard-disk database approach. As of
late, most of the organizations are moving from hard-disk based database management to in-
memory architectural approach (Zott, Amit & Massa, 2011). Thirdly, developers and
organizations have been linking big data with already existing relational databases. Generation of
big data by companies is being done in order to pursue advanced strategies such as Internet of