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Appendix A: Data
Management Systems,
Developments, and Trends
A.1 Overview
e main purpose of this appendix is to set the context of the series of books we
have written in data management, data mining, and data security. Our series started
back in 1997 with our book Data Management Systems: Evolution and Interoperation
(uraisingham 1997). Our subsequent books have evolved from this first book.
We have essentially repeated Chapter 1 of our first book in Appendix A of our
subsequent books. e purpose of this appendix is to provide an overview of data
management systems as well as to show how the field has evolved over the years:
from data to ...