| n. | 1. | an organized body of related information. |
| Noun | 1. | database - an organized body of related information |
| 1. | (database) | 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) | database - 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. | database - All the facts and rules comprising a logic programming program. |