Journal of Digital Information Management Syed Saif ur Rahman, Veit Köppen, Gunter Saake 8 2 2010 http://www.dline.info/fpaper/jdim/v8i2/7.pdf Existing database management systems (DBMS) are complex and less predictable (i.e., the consistency of performance with the increase of functionality and the data growth is not certain). Database researchers acknowledge the need for revisiting DBMS architectures to fulfill the needs of new hardware and application trends. We propose a biologically inspired DBMS architecture called \'\'Cellular DBMS