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A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval.

[FlatFile]s and [CommaSeparatedVector]s very simple databases.

[HierarchicalDataBase]s are one of the longest-established types of DataBase, with [GDBM] being a prime example.

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.

[XMLDataBase]s are currently flavour of the month for all sorts of reasons.

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