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Chapter 1
Introduction to Database
Systems and Cloud Computing
Objectives
◾ Become familiar with major database components
◾ Understand database functions
◾ Be introduced to cloud computing
1.1 Introduction
Today’s e-commerce has brought many new challenges for data storage and management. e
number of new data generated by e-commerce has grown exponentially. Recently, over 65,000
petabytes of new data have been processed by various businesses each year. One petabyte is equal
to one thousand terabytes. Web-based businesses can generate mega-scale datasets in a very short
time, such as those on sale events around holidays. e data storage is require ...