Disadvantage of Database Processing

"Om Swastiastu"

After I posted the advantage of database processing, today I want to give you the opposite one. Disadvantage of the database processing. There are 4 disadvantage of database processing I can tell to you:
  1. Larger file size
  2. Increased complexity
  3. Greater impact of failure
  4. More difficult recovery
Larger file size. In order to support all the complex functions that it provides to users, a DBMS must be a large program that occupies a great amount of disk space as well as a substantial amount of internal memory. In addition, because all the data that the database manages for you is stored in one file, the database file itself requires a large amount of disk space and internal memory.

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