Database

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  database \database\ n.
     an organized body of related information.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  database
       n : an organized body of related information

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  database
       
          1.  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
          (http://www2.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/)}.
       
          2.  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 {web site}.
       
          3. All the facts and rules comprising a {logic programming}
          program.
       
          (2002-02-09)