database

[dey-tuh-beys] /ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs/
noun
1.
a comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access, generally in a computer.
2.
data bank.
Also, data-base, data base.
Origin
1965-70; data + base1
Examples from the web for database
  • Make sure it gets included in our campus-architecture database.
  • The database should also show clearly what the survival rates are for each major type of treatment for each stage of cancer.
  • Explore this searchable database for information and photographs of reptiles and amphibians.
  • Then they put the hits in a database and compare the new terms to words they already have.
  • Except as noted, those of the species listed in this database are soft to the touch.
  • database miners still have to learn how best to use all that data.
  • The kit identification number you have entered is not recognized by the database.
  • Browse by planet or search the database for your favorites.
  • Apple also said it made a mistake by making the location database file too large.
  • For many companies, potential benefits from fine-tuning their system are too small to justify the database.
British Dictionary definitions for database

database

/ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/
noun
1.
a systematized collection of data that can be accessed immediately and manipulated by a data-processing system for a specific purpose
2.
(informal) any large store of information: a database of knowledge
database in Science
database
  (dā'tə-bās', dāt'ə-)   
A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval by a computer.
database in Culture

database definition


A set of data grouped together in one location in (or accessible by) a computer. A computerized database has been likened to an electronic filing cabinet of information arranged for easy access or for a specific purpose.

database in Technology

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 (https://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aies/www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/db_tutor.htm).
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 website.
3. All the facts and rules comprising a logic programming program.
(2005-11-17)