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In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data. The DBMS additionally encompasses the core facilities provided to administer the database. The sum…

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Database management system

Application

Database languages

Storage

Security

Transactions and concurrency

Migration

Building, maintaining, and tuning

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Database

Nodes333
Edges332
Triples376
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006006
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related to Further reading · 38
Database → Abraham Silberschatz, Auer, CMU Database, Concepts, Database Concepts, Database Management Systems, Database Modeling, Database System Concepts, Database Systems, Database SystemsBerkeley CS W186, David, Design, Eds, Encyclopedia, Fall, Gray, Henry, ISBN, Johannes Gehrke, Korth
related to Classification terms · 33
Database → ACNielsen, ACP, Also, An, Another, Both, Data, DBMS, DBMSs, Document-oriented, End-user, Examples, FDBMS, For, General, Hypertext, In, It, KB, Main
see also · 27
Database → Bank, Brand, Comparison, Compilation, Data Bank, Data BankElectron Microscopy Data, Database ManagementCasio Databank, Declarative, Early, European, Financial, International, IPC, Logical, Long-term, Misusing, Open, Organized, Repository, Software
related to 1970s, relational DBMS · 18
Database → California, CODASYL, Codd, Codd's, Data, Each, Edgar, He, IBM, In, Instead, Large Shared Data Banks, One, Relational Model, San Jose, Splitting, The, Virtual
related to Database management system · 16
Database → Begg, Connolly, DBMS, DDBMS, Examples, MariaDB, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, OODBMS, Oracle Database, ORDBMS, Other, PostgreSQL, RDBMS, The DBMS
related to Late 1970s, SQL DBMS · 16
Database → CODASYL, Codd, Codd's, Ellison, IBM, IBM Db2, IBM's, Larry Ellison's Oracle Database, Oracle, Oracle Version, SQL, SQL/DS, Subsequent, System, The, Though Oracle V1
related to Integrated approach · 14
Database → Another, Britton Lee, Exadata, Examples, However, IBM System/38, ICL's CAFS, In, Inc, Netezza, Oracle, Teradata, The, Thus
related to 1960s, navigational DBMS · 13
Database → As, California, Charles Bachman, COBOL, CODASYL, Database Task Group, IDS, In, Integrated Data Store, Interest, System Development Corporation, The, The Oxford English Dictionary
related to Research · 13
Database → ACM PODS, ACM SIGMOD, ACM Transactions, Data, Database Systems-TODS, IBM Research, IEEE ICDE, Knowledge Engineering-DKE, Notable, RAID, Research, The, VLDB
related to 1980s, on the desktop · 10
Database → BASIC, Besides IBM, COBOL, DEC's VAX Rdb/VMS, FORTRAN, Informix Corporation, Lotus, Sybase, The, Wayne Ratliff

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Databaseis aorganized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system0.90text
Databaseis adatabase that primarily resides in main memory0.90text
Databaseis akind of NoSQL database that uses graph structures with nodes0.90text
magnetic disksinstance ofThe concept of a database was made possible by the emergence of direct access storage media0.80text
which became widely available in the mid-1960sinstance ofThe concept of a database was made possible by the emergence of direct access storage media0.80text
Sybaseinstance ofon the desktopBesides IBM and various software companies0.80text
Informix Corporationinstance ofon the desktopBesides IBM and various software companies0.80text
most large computer hardware vendors by the 1980s had their own database systems such as DEC's VAX Rdb/VMSinstance ofon the desktopBesides IBM and various software companies0.80text
MySQL has grown since 2000instance ofThe popularity of open source databases0.80text
to the extent that Ken Jacobs of Oracle said in 2005 that perhapsinstance ofThe popularity of open source databases0.80text
Neo4jinstance ofincluding graph databases0.80text
represent data as nodesinstance ofincluding graph databases0.80text

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