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Data independence pertains to a database's [[Systems Development Life Cycle|life cycle]] (see [[Database#Database building, maintaining, and tuning|Database building, maintaining, and tuning]] below). It strongly impacts the convenience and cost of maintaining an application and its database, and has been the major motivation for the emergence and success of the Relational model, as well as the convergence to a common database architecture. In general the term "data independence" means that changes in the database's structure do not require changes in its application's computer programs, and that changes in the database at a certain architectural level (see below) do not affect the database's levels above. Data independence is achieved to a great extent in contemporary DBMS, but it is not completely attainable, and achieved at different degrees for different types of database structural changes.
==Major database functional areas==
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