database

1. database 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, datadefinition language, deductive database, distributeddatabase, fourth generation language, functionaldatabase, object-oriented database, relational database.

Carol E. Brown's tutorial.

2. hypertext 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)