Review of Contemporary Database Design and Implication for Big Data

In general, databases provide a single comprehensive view suitable for analysis and relevant information for a variety of organizational purposes. The intent of this paper is to review the contemporary database design in terms of data modelling, process modelling, relational databases, and data storage. The review indicates the contemporary relational database architecture provides numerous advantages such as high consistency and availability. However, it is not suitable for big data because its performance decreases as the data grows and faces scalability constraints as it is impossible to scale horizontally, and its vertical growth is limited. An implication here is that big data requires more than a relational database and the traditional SQL.