Flashcards: Databases

A distributed database is a database in which storage devices are not all attached to a common processing unit such as the CPU, and which is controlled by a distributed database management system (together sometimes called a distributed database system).

Bigtable is a compressed, high performance, and proprietary data storage system built on Google File System, Chubby Lock Service, SSTable (log-structured storage like LevelDB) and a few other Google technologies.

Couchbase Server, originally known as Membase, is an open-source, distributed (shared-nothing architecture) multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package that is optimized for interactive applications.

TheTVDB.com is a community driven database of television shows.

The .dbf file extension represents the dBASE database file.

A database schema (/ˈski.mə/ SKEE-mə) of a database system is its structure described in a formal language supported by the database management system (DBMS).

Replication in computing involves sharing information so as to ensure consistency between redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or accessibility.

A software repository is a storage location from which software packages may be retrieved and installed on a computer.

In database systems, isolation determines how transaction integrity is visible to other users and systems.

Online complex processing (OLCP) is a class of realtime data processing involving complex queries, lengthy queries and/or simultaneous reads and writes to the same records.

Data cleansing, data cleaning, or data scrubbing is the process of detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database.

ERwin Data Modeler (ERwin) is a software tool for data modeling (data requirements analysis, database design etc.) of custom developed information systems, including databases of transactional systems and data marts.

OrientDB is an open source NoSQL database management system written in Java.

Spanner is Google's globally distributed NewSQL database.

Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control.

FoundationDB was a multi-model NoSQL database with a shared nothing architecture.

Database publishing is an area of automated media production in which specialized techniques are used to generate paginated documents from source data residing in traditional databases.

A recordset is a data structure that consists of a group of database records, and can either come from a base table or as the result of a query to the table.

Database System Concepts, by Abraham Silberschatz and Hank Korth,is a classic textbook on database system.

Cockroach Labs is a computer software company that develops infrastructure solutions for businesses.

kdb+ is a column-based relational database with in-memory capabilities, developed and marketed by Kx Systems.

IDMS (Integrated Database Management System) is primarily a network (CODASYL) database management system for mainframes.

The Rigler and Deutsch Index of Recorded Sound, also known as the Rigler Deutsch Index, is a union catalog collocation of the U.

PastPerfect Museum Software is a software application for collections archiving.

NoSQLz is a consistent key-value Big data store (NoSQL database) for z/OS IBM systems.

Log shipping is the process of automating the backup of a database and transaction log files on a primary (production) database server, and then restoring them onto a standby server.

Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation is an online peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers research on databases and biocuration.

In software engineering, schema migration (also database migration, database change management) refers to the management of incremental, reversible changes to relational database schemas.