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8 AristotlePagaltzis 1 A collection of data, arranged for uniform search and retrieval.
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8 AristotlePagaltzis 3 The actual form can vary wildly. FlatFile~s and [CSV]s are very simple databases. HierarchicalDataBase~s are one of the longest-established types of DataBase, with [GDBM] being a prime example. [XMLDataBase]s are currently flavour of the month for all sorts of reasons. But the most widely used form are RelationalDataBase~s and their practical offspring PostRelationalDataBase~s.
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8 AristotlePagaltzis 5 InformationSystem~s such as [MG] use InvertedIndex~es, which serve to both compress and index natural language text.
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8 AristotlePagaltzis 7 ! See also:
8 * [RDBMS]
9 * PostgresVsMysql
9 AristotlePagaltzis 10 * http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/