database

Also known as database, DB, digital database, db

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Research

1,034,002 papers

Database Integration Correlates Street Crossing Design Strategies With Pedestrian Injury.The Journal of surgical research · 2024Ferenchak NN, Osofsky R, Simon W et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2024.01.005
[Insights for healthy settings: a database to support the translation of findings from systematic reviews into practice].ReviewBundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2021Alayli AFG, Witte C, Haß W et al.DOI: 10.1007/s00103-021-03309-w
A database for inventory of proteoform profiles: "2DE-pattern".Electrophoresis · 2020Naryzhny S, Klopov N, Ronzhina N et al.DOI: 10.1002/elps.201900468
Passionfruit Genomic Database (PGD): a comprehensive resource for passionfruit genomics.BMC genomics · 2024Yu C, Wang P, Zhang S et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-10069-9
Impact of different types of physical exercise on sleep quality in older population with insomnia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.Family medicine and community health · 2025Bahalayothin P, Nagaviroj K, Anothaisintawee TDOI: 10.1136/fmch-2024-003056
Tools and Resources at the Maize Genetics and Genomics Database (MaizeGDB).ReviewCold Spring Harbor protocols · 2025Woodhouse MR, Cannon EK, Portwood JL 2nd et al.DOI: 10.1101/pdb.over108430
Comparative Toxicogenomics Database's 20th anniversary: update 2025.Nucleic acids research · 2025Davis AP, Wiegers TC, Sciaky D et al.DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae883
Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD): in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, Causal Inference, and Data Security.ReviewClinical epidemiology · 2025Hsieh CY, Shao SC, Sung SF et al.DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S553894

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Encyclopedic overview

36 sections

Contents

Terminology and overview
History
1960s, navigational DBMS
1970s, relational DBMS
Integrated approach
Late 1970s, SQL DBMS
1980s, on the desktop
1990s, object-oriented
2000s, NoSQL and NewSQL
Use cases
Classification terms
Database management system
Application
Application program interface
Database languages
Storage
Materialized views
Replication
Virtualization
Security
Transactions and concurrency
Migration
Building, maintaining, and tuning
Backup and restore
Static analysis
Miscellaneous features
Design and modeling
Models
External, conceptual, and internal views
Research
See also
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

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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 that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data. The DBMS additionally encompasses the core facilities provided to administer the database. The sum total of the database, the DBMS and the associated applications can be referred to as a database system. Often the term "database" is also used loosely to refer to any of the DBMS, the database system or an application associated with the database.

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