ShareCare: a study of databases within Q&A webapp context

Abstract

[en] The content of this work is related to the study of the different database families that can be found working in different applications for the web. This study means a description of those families together with an analysis of their features and some of their common uses. This overview of databases will be reinforced by the example of a web application, created to exemplify some interesting use cases that make nowadays application use several kinds of databases. The purpose of this work is, therefore, to show how important is to know the possibilities that exist in terms of databases, and also to know some facts that a developer may bear in mind in order to make a good choice when selecting a database to work with.