Advanced Database Architectures

Your organization uses Microsoft® Excel® to maintain its inventory. The company is growing rapidly and has reached the point where an inventory database is needed.

Your organization's database needs include the following:

• Multiple departments will require access to the database, including eCommerce, manufacturing, sales, and customer service
• Employees will use the database to:
• Enter data
• Reference data
• Use data to auto-populate new orders and customer service records
• Analyze data and create reports

Recommend three of the following six database architecture types that would work for your organization:

• Hierarchical
• Network
• Relational
• Distributed Relational
• Object-Oriented
• Cloud

Include the following in your recommendation:

• Your top three recommended architectures, in order, using the number 1 as your best recommendation
• Your rationale for recommending each architecture
• The characteristics that make each architecture a top recommendation
• The current usage trends of these architectures in the industry and how it affected your recommendation for each
• Potential concerns or disadvantages of each architecture
• Summary of reasons for not recommending the remaining three architectures
• Citations for any graphics, images, video, or audio used

Create your recommendation as either:

• A 3- to 4-page technical summary in Microsoft® Word
• A 14- to 16-slide multimedia-rich presentation with detailed speaker notes