1. <database> One or more large structured sets of persistent data, usually associated with software to update and query the data. A simple database might be a single file containing many records, each of which contains the same set of fields where each field is a certain fixed width.
See also ANSI/SPARC Architecture, atomic, blob, database management system, data definition language, deductive database, distributed database, fourth generation language, functional database, object-oriented database, relational database.
2. <hypertext> A collection of nodes managed and stored in one place and all accessible via the same server. Links outside this are "external", and those inside are "internal".
3. All the facts and rules comprising a logic programming program.
(31 May 1996)