Guest Lecture on Future Developments in Databases

         May 30th of 2013 was another remarkable day for Association of Business &Technology. Third year students of ABT organized a guest lecture on future developments of database management. Lecture was done by Mr. Prabath Kumarasinghe who is a senior tech lead at Ensiz (Pvt) LTD, obtained his bachelors degree from university of colombo in computer science, and M.sc in web technology from university of Southampton (UK). 

Lecture was about rational database management systems, NoSQL databases, cloud databases and graph databases and its respective developments. He started with the basic explanations about database transactions, normalization and discussed about RDBMS products starting from with its history, milestones and features. Further he stated about advantages and challenges of NoSQL. Products and its features were among other topics he discussed. When discussing about cloud databases, he spoke about amazon cloud databases and Google cloud SQL. He winded the lecture after talking about graph databases.

First year, third year and final year students participated to the lecture along with the lecturers Dr. Nalaka Wickramasinghe, Ms. Lakamali Jayarathne, Ms. Chamari Jayarathne and Mr. Harshaka Hettiarachchi. At the end of the lecture token of appreciations were presented to Mr.Prabath by Dr.Nalaka and a third year student.It was indeed a valuable lecture for all of the students , and our sincere gratitude goes to Mr. Prabath .