database

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• (older) data base, data-base

Etymology

data +‎ base

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/, SAMPA: /"deIt@%beIs/

Noun

database (plural databases)

1. (computing) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.

   I have a database of all my contacts in my personal organizer.

2. (computing) A set of tables in a database(1).

   The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.

3. (computing) A software program for storing, retrieving and manipulating a database(1).

   Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?

4. (computing) A combination of (1) and (2).

Synonyms

• (collection of organized information): databank
• (computer software): database management system

Translations

collection of information

Arabic: قاعدة بيانات  (ar) (qaa3ida(t) bayaanaat) f. Catalan: base de dades (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 數據庫 (zh), 数据库 (zh) (shùjùkù) Croatian: baza podataka (hr) f. Czech: databáze (cs) f. Danish: databank (da) c., database (da) c. Dutch: database (nl), databank (nl) f. Esperanto: datumbazo (eo), datumbanko (eo), datenbazo (eo) Estonian: andmebaas (et) Finnish: tietokanta (fi) French: base de données (fr) German: Datenbank (de) f. Greek: βάση δεδομένων (el) (vási dedoménon) f. Hebrew: בסיס נתונים (he) (besis netunim) m. Hindi: डेटाबेस (hi) (ḍeṭābes) Hungarian: adatbázis (hu)

Interlingua: base de datos (ia), database (ia) Irish: bunachar sonraí (ga) m. Italian: database (it) m., base di dati (it) f. Japanese: データベース (ja) (dētabēsu) Korean: 데이터베이스 (ko) (deiteobeiseu) Latvian: datu bāze (lv) Persian: پایگاه داده‌ها (fa) (pâygâh-e dâde-hâ), بانک اطلاعات (fa) (bânk ettelâ'ât) Polish: baza danych (pl) f. Portuguese: banco de dados (pt) m., base de dados (pt) f. Russian: база данных (ru) (báza dánnyx) f. Scottish Gaelic: stòr-dàta (gd) m. Sindhi: اعدادخانو (sd) m. Spanish: base de datos (es) f., banco de datos (es) m. Swedish: databas (sv) c. Tajik: пойгоҳи додаҳо (tg) Volapük: nünodem (vo)

software program

Arabic: قاعدة بيانات  (ar) (qaa3ida(t) bayaanaat) f. (plural: قواعد البيانات qawaa3id bayaanaat) Catalan: base de dades (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 數據庫 (zh), 数据库 (zh) (shùjùkù) Croatian: baza podataka (hr) f. Czech: databáze (cs) f. Danish: database (da) c. Dutch: database (nl), databank (nl) f. Esperanto: datumbazo (eo), datumbanko (eo), datenbazo (eo) Finnish: tietokantaohjelma (fi), tietokanta (fi) French: base de données (fr) f. (official term), database (fr) f. (deprecated term) German: Datenbank (de) f.

Greek: βάση δεδομένων (el) (vási dedoménon) f. Hebrew: בסיס נתונים (he) (besis netunim) m. Hindi: डेटाबेस (hi) (ḍeṭābes) Interlingua: base de datos (ia), database (ia) Irish: bunachar sonraí (ga) m. Italian: database (it) m., base di dati (it) f. Japanese: データベース (ja) (dētabēsu) Korean: 데이터베이스 (ko) (deiteobeiseu) Latvian: datu bāze (lv) Portuguese: base de dados (pt) f. Russian: база данных (ru) (báza dánnyx) f. Scottish Gaelic: stòr-dàta (gd) m. Spanish: base de datos (es) f. Swedish: databas (sv) c., databasprogram (sv) n.

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Afrikaans: Databasis (af), databasis (af) Albanian: baza e të dhënave (sq) Azeri: verilənlər bazası (az) Basque: datu-base (eu) Belarusian: база дадзеных (be) Serbo-Croatian: baza podataka (bs) Breton: stlennvon (br) Bulgarian: база данни (bg) Serbo-Croatian: baza podataka (hr) Galician: base de datos (gl) Georgian: მონაცემთა ბაზა (ka) Hebrew: בסיס נתונים (he) Hindi: डेटाबेस (hi) Icelandic: gagnagrunnur (is) Indonesian: basis data (id) Korean: 데이터베이스 (ko) Kurdish: danegeh (ku) Lithuanian: duomenų bazė (lt) Malay: pangkalan data (ms) Malayalam: ഡാറ്റാബേസ് (ml) Norwegian: database (no) Persian: دادگان (fa) Romanian: bază de date (ro) Sinhalese: දත්ත සමුදාය (si) Slovak: databáza (sk) Slovene: podatkovna baza (sl) Tagalog: database (tl) sisidlan(base/memory storage) ng mga kaalaman(information/data) Tamil: தரவுத்தளம் (ta) Thai: ฐานข้อมูล (th) Turkish: veri tabanı (tr) Ukrainian: база даних (uk) Uzbek: ma'lumotlar Bazasi (uz) Vietnamese: cơ sở dữ liệu (vi)

Verb

database (third-person singular simple present databases, present participle databasing, simple past and past participle databased)

1. To enter data into a database

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Danish

Etymology

From English database.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /daːtabaːsə/, [ˈd̥æːtˢaˌb̥æːsə], [ˌd̥æːtˢaˈb̥æːsə]

Noun

database c. (singular definite databasen, plural indefinite databaser)

1. database [from 1970]

Inflection

    Inflection of database

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	database	databasen	databaser	databaserne
genitive	databases	databasens	databasers	databasernes

External links

• Database on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Noun

database f. (plural databases, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. database

Synonyms

• databank

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French

Noun

database f. (plural databases)

1. (dated) database

Synonyms

• base de données

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Interlingua

Noun

database (plural databases)

1. database

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Italian

Noun

database m. inv.

1. database