A brief history
Broadly, the term database can be used to present a collection of things. Moreover, this term brings to mind many other terms including data, information, data structure, and management. A database can be defined as a collection or repository of data, which has a certain structure, managed by a DBMS. Data can be structured as tabular data, semi-structured as XML documents, or unstructured data that does not fit a predefined data model.
In the early days, databases were mainly aimed at supporting business applications; this led us to the well-defined relational algebra and relational database systems. With the introduction of object-oriented languages, new paradigms of DBMS appeared, such as object-relational databases and ...
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