Difference Between File System and Database System
There are following differences between Database system and File system:-
Database System |
File System | |
| 1 | Software to create and manage database. | software that manage data files in a computer system. |
| 2 | Database system gives an abstract view of data that hides the details | File system provides the detail of the data representation and storage of data. |
| 3 | DBMS system have very complex structure. | file system have very simple structure. |
| 4 | Database system provides higher data consistency using normalisation | File system has data inconsistency |
| 5 | Database system provide a crash recovery mechanism. | File system doesn’t have a crash mechanism. |
| 6 | Backup mechanism is very complex. | Backup mechanism is very easy and simple. |
| 7 | Security is high in DBMS. | Security is low |
| 8 | Data Redundancy is less in DBMS. | Data Redundancy is more in file management system. |
| 9 | EX. MySQL , Oracle | EX. NTFS |