relational database

Definitions of relational database
  1. noun
    a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes
    “in a relational database the data are organized as a number of differently sized tables”
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    examples:
    Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System
    relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature
    type of:
    computer database, electronic database, electronic information service, on-line database
    (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
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