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Introduction to Databases

A database is an organized collection of structured data, stored and managed electronically.

A Database Management System (DBMS) is the software that interacts with users, applications and the database itself to capture, store and manage that data. It is what you actually talk to. It provides the interface for inserting, updating, deleting and retrieving data, and its job is to keep the data consistent, secure and accessible.

There are two main kinds.

Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) store data in tables with predefined relationships between them

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solomononaiwu

· 2 years ago

A database is an organized collection of structured data that is stored and managed electronically.

This definition doesn't consider unstructured data. Databases can store a collection of either structured or unstructured data. Even modern databases can handle a mix of both structured and unstructured data.