In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software...
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Spanner is a distributed SQL database management and storage service developed by Google. It provides features such as global transactions, strongly consistent...
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IMDb (redirect from The Internet Movie Database)
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos...
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Database virtualization is the decoupling of the database layer, which lies between the storage and application layers within the application stack. Virtualization...
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Database caching is a process included in the design of computer applications which generate web pages on-demand (dynamically) by accessing backend databases...
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A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A Relational Database Management System...
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A database machines or back end processor is a computer or special hardware that stores and retrieves data from a database. It is specially designed for...
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Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle DBMS, Oracle Autonomous Database, or simply as Oracle) is a proprietary multi-model database management...
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A database transaction symbolizes a unit of work, performed within a database management system (or similar system) against a database, that is treated...
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A database refactoring is a simple change to a database schema that improves its design while retaining both its behavioral and informational semantics...
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A graph database (GDB) is a database that uses graph structures for semantic queries with nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store data. A key...
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The database schema is the structure of a database described in a formal language supported typically by a relational database management system (RDBMS)...
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A chemical database is a database specifically designed to store chemical information. This information is about chemical and crystal structures, spectra...
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The tz database is a collaborative compilation of information about the world's time zones and rules for observing daylight saving time, primarily intended...
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Digital object identifier (redirect from DOI database update)
link to the URL. It is the publisher's responsibility to update the DOI database. If they fail to do so, the DOI resolves to a dead link, leaving the DOI...
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A chess database is a database of chess games. Chess Assistant Chess Informant Expert Chess opening book (computers) Chess.com chess24 ChessBase Lichess...
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A database object is a structure for storing, managing and presenting application- or user-specific data in a database. Depending on the database management...
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A vector database, vector store or vector search engine is a database that uses the vector space model to store vectors (fixed-length lists of numbers)...
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The MNIST database (Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology database) is a large database of handwritten digits that is commonly used...
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A government database collects information for various reasons, including climate monitoring, securities law compliance, geological surveys, patent applications...
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Database preservation usually involves converting the information stored in a database to a form likely to be accessible in the long term as technology...
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A Multimedia database (MMDB) is a collection of related for multimedia data. The multimedia data include one or more primary media data types such as text...
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A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of additional writes and storage...
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The CATH Protein Structure Classification database is a free, publicly available online resource that provides information on the evolutionary relationships...
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Database normalization is the process of structuring a relational database in accordance with a series of so-called normal forms in order to reduce data...
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Required skills for database administrators include knowledge of SQL, database queries, database theory, database design, specific databases, such as Oracle...
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A database shard, or simply a shard, is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each shard may be held on a separate database server...
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In database systems, consistency (or correctness) refers to the requirement that any given database transaction must change affected data only in allowed...
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A Torah database (מאגר תורני or מאגר יהדות) is a collection of classic Jewish texts in electronic form, the kinds of texts which, especially in Israel...
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Informit is as an online database that provides access to over 100 databases, some of which provide full-text sources. The online versions of the Australian...
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