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Definition 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"

Definition of Relational database

1. Noun. (databases) A database consisting of separate tables, having explicitly defined relationships, and whose elements may be selectively combined as the results of queries. ¹

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Literary usage of Relational database

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Festschrift for Herman Rubin by Anirban DasGupta, Herman Rubin (2004)
"We have built a prototype of MIND in the relational database management system DB2 and have benchmarked its performance. We describe the working prototype ..."

2. A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology by Roy A. Allan (2001)
"This new product would be a relational database system, that was first ... IBM had conceived the relational database system, but SDL had beaten them to the ..."

3. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1996)
"A parallel relational database machine will use an optimizer to balance the workload across multiple processors. The result will be a scalable system such ..."

4. Towards SQL Database Language Extensions for Geographic Information Systems edited by Vincent B. Robinson, Henry Tom (1993)
"Several efforts in spatial query language and geographic database management have a link with relational database systems. Among such efforts are pictorial ..."

5. Guidelines for the Evaluation of X.500 Directory Products by John Tebbutt (1996)
"S relational database Management System Interface One approach to the database management aspects of DSAs has been to implement the DSA as a front-end ..."

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