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 , data definition language , deductive database , distributed database , fourth generation language , functional database , object-oriented database , relational database .
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2. 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)