Learning Journal Week 1: CST363

1.) Relational databases are better suited for large amounts of data, or data which is written/overwritten many times by multiple users. A spreadsheet would be hard to manage if it were used to record account activity at a large bank for example. Databases allow for performance optimizations to handle data more efficiently. It's also harder to secure data and manage user access on a spreadsheet in comparison to relational databases.


2.) Databases are particularly useful when data is too complex to be handled by a simple system. Large corporations produce large amounts of data, and databases help these businesses avoid data outages, ensure the integrity of data as it's being updated by thousands of daily transactions, and provide administrators with plenty of control over who gets to access sensitive portions of the data.


3.) I'm particularly interested in learning about how software engineering teams at large corporations use databases, and hour their specific needs influence the types of databases they use.

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