Database / DB

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A collection of data stored and organised so it can be manipulated and retrieved.

A collection of data stored and organised so it can be manipulated and retrieved. Picture Excel spreadsheets with millions or even billions of rows.

Example: the customer list of an e-commerce store with names, addresses and phone numbers. You talk to databases through queries. In web development, you frequently come across relational databases — queried in SQL — and non-relational databases known as « NoSQL ».

Examples of SQL database managers:

MySQL
SQLite
PostgreSQL

Examples of NoSQL database managers:
- MongoDB
- Cassandra

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Data

E-commerce

MySQL

SQLite

DAO

Data Lakehouse

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