| The recent past has witnessed an overwhelming proliferation of database technology. As computer technology nowadays is indivisible from daily activities of people in the 21st century, the use of databases is becoming widespread and transparent to most daily activities such as ATM banking, grocery store inventory systems, and postal services. At present, the development, design, and use of databases are much broader than technology allowed five years ago. Therefore, database management systems must be able to handle a much broader diversity of data, such as multimedia. With the global competitive market, operations must be lean, flexible, and highly efficient. Likewise, databases in the future must be able to work seamlessly across any platform and be easily accessed from anywhere in the world. As a result, Internet technology becomes an enviable collaboration tool.; The purpose of this study was to design and implement a collaborative database system through the Internet medium. Unlike many enterprise databases that have been developed with a large capital investment, such as dedicated servers, the prototype system was designed and established on an affordable sharing web-hosting service. In addition, the proposed prototype system was implemented using a three-tier like framework which was one of the highly publicized frameworks and had been recognized as the future of client/server applications. Notably, this prototype system utilized a relay-streaming-data technique to compile data on a server. This pass-through technique filled the gap for nondoable tasks that were not allowed with a low cost, shared, web-hosting service such as customized graphical report feature or adding proprietary custom components. Prospective applications of this study include any small to medium sized companies or manufacturers that need global collaboration among users. |
