18-07-2012, 12:34 PM
Project Report on Online Airline Ticket Reservation System
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PROJECT’S MOTTO
The main aim of the project is to develop a website which would facilitate the reservation of online air tickets through an effective and yet simple GUI for a normal passenger intending to travel in airways. Apart from reserving tickets, through our system a passenger can compare online fares ‘from’ various cities ‘to’ various cities.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
1. The project is basically targeting on those people who would like to travel through air and have an Internet access.
2. As we will be making our site WAP – enabled, this will facilitate our site to accept requests from other alternative devices like PDA’s and WAP-enabled browsers. Apart from the above category of audience, passengers using hand-held devices will be our second major category of audience.
3. Finally passengers curious in comparing the prices for various Airlines for their selected source and destination cities form our third category of audience.
DATABASE SERVER :
Oracle Server
We are listing the four main reasons why we have used Oracle instead of any other prevailing database servers
SCALABLE
Oracle supports the largest databases, which can contain terabytes of
data. To make efficient use of expensive hardware devices, Oracle
enables full control of space usage. Even though we want to extend our
site to incorporate upcoming various Airlines database we would be
having no problems at all in extending our database.
RELIABLE
For now, since our website is not a full-fledged corporate website we are estimating that there would be a maximum of 150-200 hits per day including from all the above mentioned categories of audience who come to our site either to make an online reservation or to compare the prices of various airlines.
Oracle supports large numbers of concurrent users executing a variety
of database applications operating on the same data. It minimizes data
contention and guarantees data concurrency. This definitely helps
us make our website robust and accessible to many number of users
simultaneously. In future even though users increase there would be no problem on overall.
SECURE
One of the major concerns about our database were the security issues as we would be maintaining tables to store user information like his user-name, password and personal information like credit card details. We had this extra overhead of maintaining all this information securely and at the same time transparent to the user. We have no regrets now for choosing Oracle as our database server.
To protect against unauthorized database access and use, Oracle provides security features to limit and monitor data access. These features make it easy to manage even the most complex design for data access.
OTHER REASONS
Based upon the functionality of our website, it obvious that we have to be in a position to handle requests from users accessing our website from various different types of computers and operating systems. Oracle software enables different types of computers and operating systems to share information across networks. Even in future if we want to jump into distributed environment/network we can do so. For networked, distributed environments, Oracle combines the data physically located on different computers into one logical database that can be accessed by all network users. Apart from these reasons, Oracle software lets you replicate groups of tables and their supporting objects to multiple sites. Oracle supports replication of both data- and schema-level changes to these sites.