Voting system failures: a database solution

Technically speaking, a database is really the collection of related data and the relation- ships supporting the data. The database software—a.k.a the database management system (DBMS)—is the software, such as Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, and DB2, that is used to store that data. A database engine, in turn, is a process instance of the software accessing your database. Finally, the database server is the computer on which the database engine is running. In the industry, this distinction is often understood from context. I will therefore con- tinue to use the term “database” interchangeably to refer to any of these definitions. It is important, however, to database programming to understand...