database definition
1. <database> One or more large structured sets of persistent
data, usually associated with software to update and query
the data. A simple database might be a single file containing
many records, each of which contains the same set of
fields where each field is a certain fixed width.
A database is one component of a database management system.
See also ANSI/SPARC Architecture, atomic, blob, data
definition language, deductive database, distributed
database, fourth generation language, functional
database, object-oriented database, relational database.
Carol E. Brown's tutorial.
2. <hypertext> A collection of nodes managed and stored in
one place and all accessible via the same server. Links
outside this are "external", and those inside are "internal".
On the World-Wide Web this is called a website.
3. All the facts and rules comprising a logic programming
program.
(2005-11-17)
Nearby terms:
data abstraction « data acquisition « Data Address Generator « database » database administrator » database analyst » database machine
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