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computer science
Also known as: data base, electronic database
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- Also called:
- electronic database
- Related Topics:
- data analysis
- hyperlink
- file
- hypermedia
- record
database, any collection of data, or information, that is specially organized for rapid search and retrieval by a computer. Databases are structured to facilitate the storage, retrieval, modification, and deletion of data in conjunction with various data-processing operations. A database management system (DBMS) extracts information from the database in response to queries. A brief treatment of databases follows. For full treatment, see computer science: Information systems and databases; information processing. A database is stored as a file or a set of files. The information in these files may be broken down into records, each of which consists of one or ...(100 of 829 words)