» relational database
Noun (1 meaning)
1. a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes.
Example:
- “in a relational database the data are organized as a number of differently sized tables”
relational database is a type of:
- electronic database, on-line database, computer database, electronic information service (noun) - (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
instances of relational database:
- Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, MEDLARS (noun) - relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature