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-A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval. 
+A collection of data, arranged for uniform search and retrieval. 
  
-[ FlatFile] s and [CommaSeparatedVector ]s very simple databases. 
+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
  
-[HierarchicalDataBase ]s are one of the longest-established types of DataBase , with [GDBM] being a prime example
+InformationSystem~s such as [MG ] use InvertedIndex~es , which serve to both compress and index natural language text
  
-The most widely used forms database are [RelationalDataBase]s and their practical offspring [PostRelationalDataBase]s. Because a database by itself is very little use without the support infrastructure of utilities, converters, connectors, tools, tutorials and so forth most are actually Relational Database Management Systems ([RDBMS]). [RDBMS]s include [Oracle], [MySQL], [PostgreSQL], [Microsoft] [SQL] Server, Informix, [Borland] Interbase, FireBird and [IBM] [DB2]. See also PostgresVsMysql.  
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-[InformationSystem ]s such as [MG] use [InvertedIndex]es, which serve to both compress and index natural language text.  
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-[XMLDataBase]s are currently flavour of the month for all sorts of reasons
+! See also:  
+* [RDBMS ]  
+* PostgresVsMysql  
+* http://howfuckedismydatabase .com/