From the course: Databases for Node.js Developers
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Database basics
- Before we dive deeper, let's look a little bit at the basics around databases. First of all, what are databases? They're usually a large collection of data organized for rapid search and retrieval. This definition is not bound to computers actually. Anything index can be a database. Think about phone books, we know that even ancient cultures had a way to record their bookkeeping in a way so that it could be easily retrieved. Fact is there was never so much data to store and retrieve than it is today. Think about big data. If we talk about databases in programming there are some basic concepts all databases have in common. First of all, a database comes with a database management system DBMS often referred to as the database server. This is an application of its own and for web application development, it has to run either on the host where the application runs or on a dedicated host it can be reached from your…
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