State any three requirements which should be considered before making an investing decision to choose between ‘Desktop database’or ‘Server database’.

Solution

The points to be considered before making investment in a database: (any three)

(i) What all data is to be stored in the database?
(ii) Who will capture or modify the data, and how frequently the data will be modified?
(iii) Who will be using the database, and what all tasks will they perform?
(iv) Will the database ( backend) be used by any other frontend application?
(v) Will access to database be given over LAN/ Internet, and for what purposes?
(vi) What level of hardware and operating system is available?