database
Definition
Systematically organized or structured repository of indexed information (usually as a group of linked data files) that allows easy retrieval, updating, analysis, and output of data. Stored usually in a computer, this data could be in the form of graphics, reports, scripts, tables, text, etc., representing almost every kind of information. Most computer applications (including antivirus software, spreadsheets, word-processors) are databases at their core. See also flat database and relational database.
database is in the Computer Hardware, Software, & Security, Information & Knowledge Management and Information Science & Technology subjects.
database appears in the definitions of the following terms:
data management software,
relationship marketing,
query by example (QBE),
data structure,
search term,
recall ratio,
value added network,
online analytical processing (OLAP),
contact manager,
International Register Of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC)
and
database appears in these other terms:
Global Resource Information Database (GRID),
flat database,
relational database,
full text database,
flat file database,
database management system (DBMS),
database shadowing,
expert database system,
distributed database,
flatform database
and
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