Database requirements

Some functional requirements that an RDMBS should meet include

• Store any kind of data, structured, unstructured, binary …
• Support ACID properties
• deal with complex relationship between data items
• maintain the database schemata to meet business requirements
• SQL interface
• reports in various file formats
• depending on a user's role, data should be presented accordingly
• concurrent use

Non functional requirements include

• Ensuring Data quality and data integrity
• high availability
• disaster recoverability
• scalability
• security
• ease of software patching and installing new versions
• backup/recovery