The Advantages of Centralized

Database Storage
By Eric Dontigney

eHow Contributor

Pin
Share
Tweet
Share
Email

Save

digidreamgrafix/iStock/Getty Images

As businesses grow, the amount of internally generated and externally

accessible data increases dramatically. Organizing the information into
databases lets businesses impose sanity, but a different problem rears its
head. Increasing hard drive sizes make it feasible and easy to store data
locally on a PC or laptop, but increases security issues and hamstrings
access. Centralized database storage, although it sometimes limits
responsiveness to individual users, offers a number of key advantages for
businesses.

Sponsored Links

Start Download - PDF Now

Convert Any File to a PDF. Get the Free From Doc to Pdf App!
 www.fromdoctopdf.com

Improves Data Preservation

Centralized database storage improves data preservation. PC

computers and laptops rarely offer fault tolerance -- the capacity to continue
functioning after hardware failure. Fault tolerance requires duplicate
components, which drives up costs. The lack of fault tolerance places any
data stored only on a PC or laptop at risk for permanent loss. Centralized
storage often includes a fault-tolerant setup and redundant storage that
preserves the data, even in the event of a catastrophic hardware failure in a
hard drive.

Improves Physical Security

Locally stored data represents an ongoing physical security risk.

Laptops and notebooks get lost or stolen. An unattended PC presents an
opportunity for anyone to access, steal or damage locally stored data.
Centralized database storage and proper server room security restrict direct
physical access to a single location and a small group of people.

Improves Data Security

As businesses now maintain vast quantities of sensitive consumer

information, data protection is a mission-critical issue. Providing data
security with central database storage creates fewer challenges than
ensuring data security across multiple local storage sites. Data access
policies limit the damage one compromised computer can do, as does
implementing encrypted virtual private networks, firewalls and rigorous
password protection.

ADVERTISEMENT
 What's Going On With Selena Gomez And The Weeknd?

Reduces costs

Centralized storage requires the business to invest heavily in the

server technology, such as fault tolerance, but also allows it to cut overall
costs. The maintenance to the central server proves less costly than
maintenance to multiple computers, especially if the business operates in
multiple locations. Centralized storage also reduces overall space
requirements for data storage and processing.

Improved Reliability and Update Speed

Centralized storage typically employs higher-quality components and

redundancy, which makes it significantly more reliable than local storage.
Centralized database storage facilitates virtualization and provides
comprehensive data access, if desired, from anywhere in the world. Updates
carried out on a database run on centralized storage carry through to all end-
users, as opposed to local storage, which only applies to that computer.

Sponsored Links

Related Searches
Centralized and Decentralized
Database Management System.
Centralized Database

A centralized database holds all data on a central computer such as a mainframe computer or
server.A centralized database (sometimes abbreviated CDB) is a database that is located,
stored, and maintained in a single location. This location is most often a central computer or
database system, for example a desktop or server CPU, or a mainframe computer which can
easily understand by given figure.

Advantages of Centralized
Database.
1. manage ability

2. speed of operation

3. portability

4. integration is easy

5. upgrades, backups, security is a lot easier.

Disadvantages:
1. if centre goes down, everything is down. So you need to have offline servers.
2. Performance can suffer because companies usually underestimate the demands on the
database server.

Decentralized Database

A distributed database is a
database in which portions of the database are stored on multiple computers within a network.A
decentralized database is a collection of (structured) information, which may be logically
distributed, physically distributed, or both. In this system cloning method is used which mean
same shortcut data is saved at multiple places.For example Data of google,facebook etc are
saved at different places may be many countries.

Advantages of distributed database:

1) In a distributed database, data can be stored in different systems like personal computers,
servers, mainframes, etc.
2) A user doesnt know where the data is located physically.

3) Database can be accessed over different networks.

4) Data can be joined and updated from different locations which are located on different
machines.

5) A distributed database is secure.

Disadvantages of distributed
database:
1) Since the data is accessed from a remote system, performance is reduced due to network
traffic.

2) Static SQL cannot be used.

3) Network traffic is increased in a distributed database.

4) Storage center in Database is difficult to maintain in a distributed database.

5) Different data formats are used in different systems.

6) Different DBMS products are used in different systems which increases in complexity of the
system.

7) Managing system catalog is a difficult task.

8) While recovering a failed system, the DBMS has to make sure that the recovered system is
consistent with other systems.

9) Managing distributed deadlock is a difficult task.

 no need of security centralized database system (Khng cn bo mt?)
data cannot be integrated (d liyou c th khng c tch hp?)
by centralized database inconsistences (myou thun) in data can be reduced (Myou thun
d liyou c gim)
in this kind of database management , data can be shared and several users can access it (D
liyou c th c chia s cho nhiyou ngI dng)
the amount of redundancy in the stored data can be increased (D tha d liyou c tng
ln)
Some of the advantages of a centralized database system are as follows :-

1) It eliminates any form of redundancy in the information system given theapplication of object
relational database management systems.
2) Any sort of information is easily available on a single click via the various forms and built in
software applications.
3) Provides Integrated services for the entire organization designed specifically with respect to
the nature of the business and keeping in mind the needs of internal customers and external
customers.
4) Provides cost and work flow efficiency. Also, makes it easier to keep a track of all records.