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relational database

DEFINITIONS OF: relational database

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n 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”
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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