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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Saturday, June 25, 2005 8:24:26 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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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.
-
-[InformationSystem
]s such as [MG] use [InvertedIndex]es, which serve to both compress and index natural language text.
-
-[XMLDataBase]s are currently flavour of the month for all sorts of reasons.
+!
See also:
+*
[RDBMS
]
+* PostgresVsMysql
