Security Perception and Features of RDBMSs

Abstract

Selection of an appropriate Database Management System (DBMS) to support the particular database system is considered as crucial stage in the associated development lifecycle. The selection process supposes undertaken prior physical design stage and based on numerous DBMS evaluation features and criteria, which in line with the given system requirements. Recently, security features raise and become a foremost selection criterion as well as an elementary system requirement. Therefore, this study contributes to such context by conducting a comparative study intended for the security perception and features of the most three famed and widely used Relational DBMSs, namely Oracle, MS SQL Server, and MySQL. The study proposes and formulates security evaluation features derived from the standard criteria in order to accomplish such appraisal. The result of the study classifies and grades the three chosen RDBMSs consistent with the developed security evaluation criteria, which ranks Oracle on the topmost.