MOBILE DATABASE SYSTEM

MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
• Mobile devices indispensable in daily lives

• Computational and networking power is

constantly increasing

• Emerged as multitasking device

• Availibilty and access to high speed network

• Mobile database can be connected to by a

mobile computing device over a wireless

mobile network.
Source(Mobile Database Review and Security
Aspects,Bhagat.A.R, Prof. Bhagat.V.B)
FULLY CONNECTED INFORMATION SPACE

Source(Mobile Database System, 3rd edition, Vijay Kumar)

TYPES OF MOBILITY
1. Terminal Mobility
2. Personal Mobility
 TERMINAL MOBILITY

• Connection established between two points

 not between two persons calling each other

• Allows use of communcation devices

 to share among anybody

• Mobile unit can access desired service from any location

 motion or stationary
Source(QUERY ISSUES IN MOBILE DATABASE SYSTEMSM.
Anandhakumar,Dr. E. Ramaraj, Dr. N. Venkatesan)
PERSONAL MOBILITY

• Mobility of person is supported

• User do not need to carry any communication device

 to establish contact

• Facility requires an identification scheme

Source(QUERY ISSUES IN MOBILE DATABASE SYSTEMSM.

 to verify the person Anandhakumar,Dr. E. Ramaraj, Dr. N. Venkatesan)
NEED FOR MOBILE DATABASES
• Number of mobile device users exceeded 5 billions

• Retrieval of information from any location

• connected to wireless network

• Capable of communicating with corporate database

• from remote places

• Allows transfer of data

• between mobile database and mobile database
• between mobile database and corporate database
 TRADITIONAL DATABASE VS MOBILE DATABASE
Property Traditional Database Mobile Database
Mobility Contained in immobile database systems Contained in mobile devices

Connectivity Connected over wired network Connected over wireless network

Memory footprint need large footprint (min. 512 MB) low footprint (min. less than 1 MB)

clents does not always receive updated data due

Data synchronization clients always receive up to date data to frequent connection loss

Security more secure less secure

Storage have large storage very limited storage

Query processing
information no location information in need location information are very important
 TRADITIONAL DATABASE VS MOBILE DATABASE
Architecture of Traditional DBMS Peer-to-Peer Architecture of MDS

Source:(https://www.slideshare.net/SisuruKekiriwara
goda/literature-survey-on-mobile-database-tools)
CHARACTERISTICS OF MOBILE ENVIRONMENT

• Restricted bandwidth of wireless networks

• Limited power supply

• Limited resources

• Mobility

• Disconnections
FEATURES OF MDS
• Small memory footprint
• Flash-optimized storage system
• Data synchronization
• Security
• Low power consumption
• Self-management
• Embedded in applications
EXISTING MDS
Name Developer Type Desciption
Sybase
SQL Anywhere iAnywhere Relational Embedded/portable database, can synchronize with stationary database

DB2 Everyplace IBM Relational Portable, can synchronize with stationary database
IBM Mobile
Database IBM Relational Portable/embedded, small footprint
SQL Server Small footprint,Portable/embedded, dB for Ms Windows mobile device,
Compact Microsoft Relational supports syschronization with Ms SQL Server

Oracle
Oracle Db Lite Corporation Relational Portable, can synchronize with stationary database
C
programming
SQLite D. Richard Hipp library Public domain

Sparsity Graph
Sparksee 5 mobile Technologies Database Small footprint,Portable/embedded dB for android,iOS
Source(Mobile Database Review and Security
Aspects,Bhagat.A.R, Prof. Bhagat.V.B)
SECURITY STRATEGY OF MOBILE DATABASE

1. Perfecting the authentication mechanism

• WPKI (Wireless public key infrastructure)

• Establish strict user indentification system

2. Further strengthen storage access control

3. Strengthen the encryption of data

SECURITY RELATED TECHNIQUES

1. Secure network connection

2. Encrypted local database

3. User authentication at database server

4. Authentication at the web server

FIREBASE REALTIME DATABASE

• Store and sync data in real time

• Collaborate across devices with ease

• Build serverless app

• Optimize for offline use

• Strong user base security

 CONCLUSION
• The need for mobile databases.
• Types of Mobility.
• The different types of architectures and characteristics of mobile
environment.
• And most importantly the security strategies and therefore the
involved security techniques in mobile databases.
REFERENCES
• Mobile Database Review and Security Aspects,Bhagat.A.R, Prof.
Bhagat.V.B
• QUERY ISSUES IN MOBILE DATABASE SYSTEMSM. Anandhakumar,Dr.
E. Ramaraj, Dr. N. Venkatesan
• Mobile Database System, 3rd edition, Vijay Kumar
• Comparative Study of Traditional Database and Cloud Computing
Database, Sapna Jain, M Afshar Alam
• Mobile Database Design: A Key Factor in Mobile Computing, Geetika
and Aman Chandna
• https://firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database