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The following is provided as an overview of and topical guide to databases:

'''[[Database]]''' &ndash; organized collection of data, today typically in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality (for example, the availability of rooms in hotels), in a way that supports processes requiring this information (for example, finding a hotel with vacancies).

== What type of things are databases? ==

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* [[Food composition database]] (FCDB) &ndash; provides detailed information on the nutritional composition of foods.

* [[Full-text database]] &ndash; database that contains the complete text of books, dissertations, journals, magazines, newspapers or other kinds of textual documents. Also called a "complete-text database".

* [[Government database]] &ndash; collects personal information for various reasons ([[mass surveillance]], Schengen Information System in the European Union, social security, statistics, etc.).

* [[Graph database]] &ndash; uses graph structures with nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store data.

* [[Knowledge base]] &ndash; special kind of database for knowledge management. A knowledge base provides a means for information to be collected, organised, shared, searched and utilised.

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* [[Database model]] &ndash;

* [[Database normalization]] &ndash; organizing tables based on their attributes so that the data presented can avoid having redundancy and dependency.

* [[Database storage structures]] &ndash;

* [[Distributed database management system]] &ndash;

* [[Federated database system]] &ndash; type of meta-database management system (DBMS), which transparently maps multiple autonomous database systems into a single federated database.

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== Database-related publications ==

* [[Ling Liu (computer scientist)|Ling Liu]] and Tamer M. Özsu (Eds.) (2009). "[https://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+&+information+retrieval/book/978-0-387-49616-0 Encyclopedia of Database Systems], 4100 p.&nbsp;60 illus. {{ISBN|978-0-387-49616-0}}. Table of Content available at http://refworks.springer.com/mrw/index.php?id=1217

* Beynon-Davies, P. (2004). Database Systems. 3rd Edition. Palgrave, Houndmills, Basingstoke.

* Connolly, Thomas and Carolyn Begg. ''Database Systems.'' New York: Harlow, 2002.

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{{Sister project links|Databases}}

* {{curlie|Computers/Data_Formats/Database|Databases}}

* [http://www.fileextension.org/DB DB File extension] – information about files with the DB extension

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