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== Types of databases ==

* [[Active database]] – database that includes an event driven architecture (often in the form of ECA rules) which can respond to conditions both inside and outside the database.

* [[Animation database]] – database which stores fragments of animations or human movements and which can be accessed, analyzed and queried to develop and assemble new animations.

* [[Back-end database]] – database that is accessed by users indirectly through an external application rather than by application programming stored within the database itself or by low level manipulation of the data (e.

* [[Bibliographic database]] – database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, patents, books, etc.

* [[Centralized database]] – database located and maintained in one ___location, unlike a distributed database.

* [[Cloud database]] – database that typically runs on a cloud computing platform, such as Amazon EC2, GoGrid and Rackspace.

* [[Collection database]] –

* [[Collective Optimization Database]] – open repository to enable sharing of benchmarks, data sets and optimization cases from the community, provide web services and Plug-in (computing)|plugins to analyze optimization data and predict program transformations or better hardware designs for multi-objective optimizations based on statistical and machine learning techniques provided there is enough information collected in the repository from multiple users.

* [[Column-oriented DBMS]] – database management system (DBMS) that stores data tables as sections of columns of data rather than as rows of data, like most relational DBMSs.

* [[Configuration management database]] –

* [[Cooperative database]] – holds information on customers and their transactions.

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

* [[Knowledge base]] –

* [[Mobile database]] – database that can be connected to by a mobile computing device over a mobile network.

* [[Navigational database]] – database in which objects (or records) in it are found primarily by following references from other objects.

* [[Non-native speech database]] – speech database of non-native pronunciations of English.

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* [[Operational database]] – accessed by an Operational System to carry out regular operations of an organization.

* [[Parallel database]] –

* [[Probabilistic database]] – an uncertain database in which the possible worlds have associated probabilities.

* [[Project-Level Aid Database]] –

* [[Public ___domain database]] –

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* [[Time series database]] –

* [[Triplestore]] – purpose-built database for the storage and retrieval of triples, a triple being a data entity composed of subject-predicate-object, like "Bob is 35" or "Bob knows Fred".

* [[Very large database]] (VLDB) – , or '''VLDB''', is a database that contains an extremely high number of tuples (database rows), or occupies an extremely large physical filesystem storage space.

* [[Virtual private database]] (VPD) – or '''VPD''' masks data in a larger database so that security allows only the use of apparently private data.

* [[Vulnerability database]] – platform aimed at collecting, maintaining, and disseminating information about discovered vulnerabilities targeting real computer systems.

* [[XLDB]] – '''Stands for "eXtremely Large Data Bases'''Base".

* [[XML database]] –

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* [[Pakistan MNP Database (Guarantee) Limited]] &ndash;

* [[RecordSetter]] &ndash; formerly known as the Universal Record Database (URDB), is a social media website containing a collection of world records created by the public and evaluated by staff and visitors to the site. -->

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== History of databases ==