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- 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.