database : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: database	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for database
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
database n an organized body of related information
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
database 1. One or more large structured sets of persistent data, usually associated with software to update and {query} the data. A simple database might be a single file containing many {records}, each of which contains the same set of {fields} where each field is a certain fixed width. A database is one component of a {database management system}. See also {ANSI/SPARC Architecture}, {atomic}, {blob}, {data definition language}, {deductive database}, {distributed database}, {fourth generation language}, {functional database}, {object-oriented database}, {relational database}. {Carol E. Brown's tutorial (http://www2.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/)}. 2. A collection of {nodes} managed and stored in one place and all accessible via the same {server}. {Links} outside this are "external", and those inside are "internal". On the {World-Wide Web} this is called a {web site}. 3. All the facts and rules comprising a {logic programming} program. (2002-02-09)