Database vs Cardinality - What's the difference?
database | cardinality |
(computing) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
(computing) A set of tables in a database(1).
(computing) A software program for storing, retrieving and manipulating a database(1).
(computing) A combination of (1) and (2).
To enter data into a database
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(set theory) Of a set, the number of elements it contains.
(data modeling) The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many.
As nouns the difference between database and cardinality
is that database is a collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer while cardinality is of a set, the number of elements it contains.As a verb database
is to enter data into a database.database
English
(wikipedia database)Alternative forms
* (older) data base, data-baseNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (collection of organized information) databank * (computer software) database management systemVerb
(databas)cardinality
English
(wikipedia cardinality)Noun
(cardinalities)- The empty set has a cardinality of zero.
