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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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 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 connection is a facility in computer science that allows client software to talk to database server software, whether on the same machine or...
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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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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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A centralized database (sometimes abbreviated CDB) is a database that is located, stored, and maintained in a single location. This location is most often...
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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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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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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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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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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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The LOLI Database, an abbreviation of List Of LIsts, is an international chemical regulatory database developed and maintained by ChemADVISOR, Inc. The...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 flat-file database is a database stored in a file called a flat file. Records follow a uniform format, and there are no structures for indexing or recognizing...
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The Ki Database (or Ki DB) is a public domain database of published binding affinities (Ki) of drugs and chemical compounds for receptors, neurotransmitter...
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In the field of bioinformatics, a sequence database is a type of biological database that is composed of a large collection of computerized ("digital")...
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Database-centric Architecture or data-centric architecture has several distinct meanings, generally relating to software architectures in which databases...
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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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A database search engine is a search engine that operates on material stored in a digital database. Categories of search engine software include: Web search...
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A cloud database is a database that typically runs on a cloud computing platform and access to the database is provided as-a-service. There are two common...
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