From Conventional to Mobile Database Management System: A Theoretical Review

The wireless and mobile communication is an important technology that improves user s daily life and facilitates the development of some new technology such as electronic commerce and mobile commerce. Commercial relational Database Management Systems (DBMS) are oriented towards efficient support for business data processing applications where large numbers of instances of fixed format records must be stored and accessed. To survive and thrive in today s competitive business environment organisations must have the ability to move business information quickly and securely between the back office and the front lines. There is a general deficiency in the number of literatures that reviews the move from conventional databases to mobile databases and which also addresses new challenges for enterprises created by the growing demand for mobility.