database

3 definitions found

database - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

database - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  database
      n 1: an organized body of related information

database - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  database
  DB
  
     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  (http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aies/www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/db_tutor.htm)
      .
  
     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)