Selecting a suitable database system for Kirkuk University

In this thesis, the situation for Kirkuk University was especially studied in order to change the current mechanism of managing the procedures based mostly on papers and manual work to that of another mechanism based on a database system. After studying the conditions of the University, we suggested and designed two models for two database systems that are adopted to be studied and compared in this thesis, namely the centralized database system and distributed database system. By using these models, comparisons are obtained between these two systems by applying three methods. The first method is to compare the general features for these two systems, the second by using three suggested queries as a simulation of the most used queries in the University, and the third by creating a questionnaire at the Presidency of the University and College of Agriculture, considering it as one of six colleges that communicates with the University campus via the WAN. Finally, the results of the three methods are analyzed in order to select a suitable database system for the conditions at Kirkuk University.