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Databases

Also Known As Database Systems
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Databases is the field of computing concerned with organizing collections of data so they can be stored, queried, updated and kept consistent at scale. Its modern shape emerged in the mid 1960s, when direct access storage made organized shared data stores practical, and it was transformed in 1970 when Edgar F. Codd proposed the relational model, the theoretical basis of the relational database systems that now carry most of the world's structured data. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Origin Year
1965 1
Mid 1960s, stated as the era when the term database arrived with direct access storage; 1965 stands for that mid decade point rather than a single founding event.
Core Concern
How collections of data are structured, stored, queried and kept correct while many programs and people use them at once. 1
Connections

Associated With

Bioinformatics, Fields

Field-to-field association; both are standard neighbouring areas of computing

Data Mining, Fields
Data Science, Fields

Field-to-field association; both are standard neighbouring areas of computing

Digital Libraries, Fields
Edgar F. Codd, Pioneers

Edgar F. Codd's 1970 paper A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks founded the field's dominant model, and he is widely called the father of the relational database.

Source Wikipedia: Edgar F. Codd
Semantic Web, Fields

Includes

Edgar F. Codd, Pioneers
Relational Model, Concepts
Sharding, Concepts
SQL, Programming Languages
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Database
Wikipedia
  • Terminology and History sections
    an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS)
  • Terminology section
    a software system that enables users to define, create, maintain and control access to the database.
  • History section
    The introduction of the term database coincided with the availability of direct-access storage (disks and drums) from the mid-1960s onwards.
  • Introduction
    In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS).
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