1.1 Database System History

The second video in the series discusses the history of DBMS and how the evolved to offer the functionally that defines them today. This is loosely based on section 1.1 of your book and also Codd's paper. We also explore differences in NoSQL and Relational approaches and why you consider one approach vs another when designing your datastore.

A Database is a collection of information that exists over a long period of time, and that collection of data that is managed by a DBMS or Database Management System. In this topic the traits of DBMS's and history are explored.

Book used in this course: Garcia-Molina, Hector. Database systems: the complete book. Pearson Education India, 2008.