How RDBMSs Solve These Problems

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Relational database management systems address all these issues:

  1. RDBMSs can provide much faster access to data than flat files.And MySQL, the database system we use in this book, has some of the fastest benchmarks of any RDBMS.
  2. RDBMSs can be easily queried to extract sets of data that fit certain criteria.
  3. RDBMSs have built-in mechanisms for dealing with concurrent access so that you, as a programmer, don’t have to worry about it.
  4. RDBMSs provide random access to your data.
  5. RDBMSs have built-in privilege systems. MySQL has particular strengths in this area.


Probably the main reason for using an RDBMS is that all (or at least most) of the functionality that you want in a data storage system has already been implemented.
 
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