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Database vs Superdatabase - What's the difference?

database | superdatabase |

As nouns the difference between database and superdatabase

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 superdatabase is a large or composite database.

As a verb database

is to enter data into a database.

database

English

(wikipedia database)

Alternative forms

* (older) data base, data-base

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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).

    • Synonyms

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

    Verb

    (databas)
  • To enter data into a database
    • ----

    superdatabase

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large or composite database.
  • * 1998 , IEEE, 1998 Index to IEEE Publications
    • A technological and infrastructural challenge: a superdatabase for accessing all electronically published science and technology articles at once...
  • * 1999 , Susan Gauch, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information Knowledge
    • Every 30 databases are grouped into a superdatabase .
  • * 2008 , Alan Travis, Richard Norton-Taylor, Private firm may track all email and calls'' (''The Guardian , 31 December 2008)
    • But in his strongest criticism yet of the superdatabase , Sir Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions, who has firsthand experience of working with intelligence and law enforcement agencies, told the Guardian such assurances would prove worthless in the long run...