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Architecture

For the first category of database production, storage, and retrieval Team Sirius has decided to utilize MySQL for a multitude of reasons. NPOI is utilizing PhpMyAdmin to administer their current database. PhpMyAdmin is a software tool written in PHP, intended to easily handle administration of MySQL over the web. Utilizing MySQL in our project will allow for easy transition between our web dashboard and the currently in place system. Furthermore MySQL is by far one of the most popular database management systems out there, boasting one of its largest selling points being extremely fast read operations. It contains all of the features we need for a database management system. MySQL is designed with focus on the Web, Cloud, and Big Data. MySQL provides improvements in scale-up and scale-out performance, high availability, and data integrity, monitoring, and resource management, development agility, and security. MySQL additionally does not demand much of your computer resources meaning utilizing MySQL will cost less computer memory or CPU usage compared to other Relational Database Management Systems. Finally MySQL is compatible with our choice of Django as a web framework.

Technologies

For the second category of front end web dashboard data analysis and organization for consumption, Team Sirius has decided to utilize Django as a web framework. We decided to adopt Django as our web framework due to the fact that it is developed in Python and its built-in full stack capabilities are easy to use and well documented. Django comes as a complete package so that once installed and configured we can start developing right away. Django follows a Model-View-Template architecture. This Model-View-Template architecture was critical in our choice of web framework because this style of architecture is essential for us to produce the best product based on our requirements. The Model helps to handle our database which will store the collected data. It is a data access layer which handles the collected data. The Template is a presentation layer which handles the User Interface portion in totality. The View is used to execute the business logic and interact with a model to carry data while rendering a template. Django offers our team a clear and organized way to carry out the best project possible while fulfilling our requirements.