Analysis of Facebook's Database and Management Information System

This report provides an overview of Facebook's database and management information system (DBMS). It highlights Facebook's background as a social media platform founded in 2004 and its massive user base. The report defines a DBMS as a software package designed for defining, retrieving, manipulating, and managing data in a database, emphasizing its importance for secure data storage and retrieval. It also references articles on user data privacy, cloud storage assessment, and database storage, showcasing the critical aspects of data management in the context of Facebook's operations. Desklib offers students access to similar solved assignments and past papers for further study.

DATABASE AND MANANGEMENT
INFORMATION SYSTEM

Table Of Content
• Company Background
• Database and Management Information System
• References

Company Background – Facebook
• Facebook is a social media and networking service which is
an American online platform owned by Meta Platforms.
• This online connectivity platform was founded in 2004 by
Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow Harvard College students.
• In the year 2020, the organization has reported a total of 2.8
monthly active users and the platform is ranked fourth in
global internet usage.

Database and Management Information System
• A database management system (DBMS) refers to a software
package that is designed in a way that it defines, retrieves,
manipulates, and manages the data in the database.
• A DBMS generally helps in manipulating the data itself, the
field names, the data format, and the record structure.
• Every organization and platform needs to store the data
securely so that it can be retrieved and used when required in
the future.

References
• Isaak, J. and Hanna, M.J., 2018. User data privacy: Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and privacy
protection. Computer, 51(8), pp.56-59.
• Gomes, C., Tavares, E., Junior, M.N.D.O. and Nogueira, B., 2022. Cloud storage availability and
performance assessment: a study based on NoSQL DBMS. The Journal of Supercomputing, 78(2),
pp.2819-2839.
• Sun, Y., Wang, Y. and Yang, H., 2018. Bidirectional database storage and sql query exploiting rram-
based process-in-memory structure. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 14(1), pp.1-19.