A session on “Latest Trends in Databases” was conducted for MCA students of MET Institute of Computer Science by Dr. Aarti Karande, Assistant Professor at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology.

Dr. Karande highlighted the transition from conventional databases to modern systems, covering multimedia, distributed, document-oriented, mobile, embedded and cloud databases. Emerging technologies such as serverless databases, graph databases, edge databases and blockchain-based data management were also discussed.

Dr. Karande emphasized scalability, real-time analytics, data interoperability and security as key industry requirements. It proved highly informative and beneficial for the students.