- Intelligent Database
Until the 1980s, databases were viewed as computer systems that stored record oriented and business type data such as manufacturing inventories, bank records, sales transactions, etc. A
database system was not expected to merge numeric data with text, images, ormultimedia information, nor was it expected to automatically notice patterns in the data it stored. In the late 1980’s the concept of an “Intelligent Database” was put forward as a system that manages information (rather than data) in a way that appears natural to users and which goes beyond simple record keeping.The term Intelligent Database was introduced in 1989 by the book “Intelligent Databases” by
Kamran Parsaye ,Mark Chignell ,Setrag Khoshafian andHarry Wong . This concept postulated three levels of intelligence for such systems: 1. high level tools, 2. theuser interface and 3. thedatabase engine . The high level tools manage data quality and automatically discover relevant patterns in the data with a process calleddata mining . This layer often relies on the use ofartificial intelligence techniques. The user interface useshypermedia in a form that uniformly manages text, images and numeric data. The intelligent database engine supports the other two layers, often mergingrelational database techniques withobject orientation .In the twenty first century, intelligent databases have now become widespread, e.g. hospital databases can now call up patient histories consisting of charts, text and x-ray images just with a few mouse clicks, and many corporate databases include
decision support tools based on sales pattern analysis, etc.External links
*The Book [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471503452 Intelligent Databases] .
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