A field of computing concerned with organizing, storing and extracting value from large collections of data, documents or facts, and with the World Wide Web as a system for doing so at scale. Belongs here: Databases, which structures data for reliable storage and query, and Information Retrieval, which finds relevant material within a large collection. Does not belong here: a field about the underlying mathematical model used to learn from data, such as Machine Learning, filed under Computing Methodologies instead.
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The relational model, first proposed in 1970 by Edgar F. Codd, departed from this tradition by insisting that applications should search for data by content, rather than by following links.
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