{"id":3005,"date":"2019-09-13T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T09:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.octalsoftware.com.sg\/blog\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T13:32:05","slug":"tips-to-choose-database-mobile-app-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.octalsoftware.com.sg\/blog\/tips-to-choose-database-mobile-app-development\/","title":{"rendered":"How the success of your mobile app depends on choosing the right database?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today mobile phones are considered as the most useful medium to seek information. They are heavily used devices for many such purposes. In fact, today every mobile device has at least a total of ten mobile applications for several purposes, be it taxi-booking app<\/a>, food delivery app<\/a><\/strong>, e-commerce app, social networking apps<\/a>, banking apps for easy transactions, music apps, and the list is absolutely endless. These apps are useful to make people\u2019s lives easier by being immensely informative, fast, easily understood, and most important of all, user-friendly. In case, a mobile app fails to meet these above requirements then users consider it as useless and time-wasting.<\/p>\n

Hence, there is a huge responsibility on the part of mobile app developers<\/a> to come up with an app idea that is absolutely in sync with current market trends and the trends in the programming arena. It is imperative to get the right information and databases for your app in order to ensure that it gets desired views and clicks.<\/p>\n

This is the reason that when developing a mobile app<\/a>, it is vital that you are making a wise move while choosing its database. There are tremendous choices available in the market as it comes to selecting a database for mobile app development<\/a> when there are several factors that need to be considered before jumping upon one.<\/p>\n

In this article, we will cover in-depth the many aspects of the database, its types, and what factors need to be kept in mind while choosing one.<\/p>\n

What is Database?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To keep things simple, let\u2019s understand it this way. So, you are enticed by a mobile app that you recently find out. Now, what would you do next? You would certainly want to install the app and register into it, right? Once you have registered yourself to the app, you can now use the app whenever you want in the future, by simply having to log in using your username and password. Because the app is going to automatically recall the data provided by you while the registration process.<\/p>\n

Now did you ever give this a thought that how a mobile app identifies you and even remembers all data just instantly? Well, it is all thanks to the database. It is the database that stores all the user information while s\/he registers for a mobile app.<\/p>\n

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Why a mobile app requires a database?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, without a database, it would be impossible for a mobile application to store tonnes of data for millions of customers. A database doesn\u2019t just only help to store data, but it also makes it easy to update any of the particular data (from large volumes of data that is already there is a database) with newer data. Also, the data that is stored in an app\u2019s database is way more secure than being stored in any of the other forms and it helps in identifying any duplicate data set already present in it. This certainly would be difficult to do if the data is stored in any other data storage mode. Often it also happens that the users enter incomplete data sets, which can be problematic for any mobile app. However, a database can easily identify such cases.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a user can\u2019t interact directly with any database \u2013 there must be an interface or an intermediate system that enables users to interact with it. This kind of interface is known as the DBMS (database management system<\/a>). This basically is a computer software application that interacts with user or the other apps, and even with a database, so to capture and analyze data. Any of DBMS, for instance, MYSQL, is designed in a manner that it enables to define, query, create, update and administer the whole database. Here, the database is requested to provide the required data in a query language.<\/p>\n

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How many types of Database are there?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mainly, the databases are of five types, such as:<\/p>\n