Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine context of business need or problem
- Gather information
- Determine database functionality
- Identify scalability and functionality
- Identify the reserve and long-term capacity of the database
- Identify the implications for the system architecture, data models, data structures, hardware and software
- Identify requirements for scalability
- Compare functionality and scalability features of the database
- Determine and document whether a gap between the features exists
- Prepare database functionality and scalability report