Cosma / Communication / Media / Storage / Software / Database
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Introduction1
Dictionary
database : a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer) — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook
Database (FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Encyclopedia
Database is an organized collection of data, today typically in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality (for example, the availability of rooms in hotels), in a way that supports processes requiring this information (for example, finding a hotel with vacancies). — Wikipedia See also Database (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Outline of Databases (Wikipedia)
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Inspiration
Talks about Databases (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
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Innovation
Technology
Database Management System (DBMS) is software that enables users to define, create, maintain and control access to a database. The DBMS acronym is sometimes extended to indicate the underlying database model, with RDBMS for the relational, OODBMS for the object (oriented) and ORDBMS for the object–relational model. Other extensions can indicate some other characteristic, such as DDBMS for a distributed database management systems. — Wikipedia
What is a Database? (Guru99, Website)
Database Management Systems: Category (Wikipedia)
Relational database is a database based on the relational model of data. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relational database systems have an option of using the SQL for querying and maintaining the database.[2] — Wikipedia
Relational Database Management System (FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
SQL Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS). It is particularly useful in handling structured data, i.e. data incorporating relations among entities and variables. — Wikipedia
SQL (FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
Product
Comparison of Relational Database Management Systems (Wikipedia)
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Preservation
History
History of Databases (Computer History Museum, YouTube Video)
Introduction to Databases (Philip Greenspun, SQL for Web Nerds)
Philip Greenspun (Wikipedia)
Library
DDC: 005.7 Data (Library Thing)
DDC: 005.74 General Databases And Data Files (Library Thing)
DDC: 005.75 Specific Databases And Data Files (Library Thing)
Subject: Databases (Library Thing)
Subject: Databases (Open Library)
LCC: QA 76.9.D3 Databases (UPenn Online Books)
LCC: QA 76.9.D3 (Library of Congress)
Subject: Databases (Library of Congress)
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Participation
Education 2
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
Course
MIT 6.830/6.814: Database Systems (MIT Opencourseware)
MIT 6.830/6.814: Database Systems (MIT Opencourseware, YouTube Playlist)
Community
Occupation
Computer Network and Database Architects (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
Database Administrator (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
Database Administrator (Computer Science.org)
Database Administrator (FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
News
Data / Storage And Retrieval (Communications of the ACM)
Database Trends and Applications
Database Journal
Databases (JSTOR)
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Database Trends and Applications : All Articles RSS feeds from Database Trends and Applications .
- Blumira Debuts Hearth, a Universal AI Command...on August 12, 2026 at 2:05 pm
Blumira, the security operations platform for growing teams and partners, is introducing Hearth, a vendor-agnostic AI command center that intelligently reasons across the complete workspace, so teams can coordinate their whole environment from one place.
- Tuskira Launches Agentic Control Plane for...on August 12, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Tuskira is introducing its?Agentic Control Plane for Exposure Management, a new capability within the Tuskira platform that governs AI-discovered vulnerabilities?from scan to verified closure.?The capability extends Tuskira's existing zero-day and exposure-response capabilities to frontier-model scanning.
- How to Escape AI Pilot Purgatoryon August 12, 2026 at 2:00 pm
In this clip from Data Summit 2026, John O'Brien, Radiant Advisors' principal advisor and industry analyst, breaks down survey findings from the 2026 AI Market Study conducted by DBTA and Radiant Advisors to reveal what organizations in product have that pilots do not and the gaps typically found between organizations enjoying AI success and those that can't seem to get there.
- SIOS Technology Releases LifeKeeper v10.1 with...on August 12, 2026 at 2:00 pm
SIOS Technology Corp., a leading provider of application high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, is releasing LifeKeeper v10.1?introducing AIOps-ready automation capabilities that help organizations streamline the deployment and management of HA/DR environments while strengthening cloud security and expanding support for modern enterprise infrastructures.
- Teradata Provides its Enterprise-Grade Data...on August 11, 2026 at 2:15 pm
Teradata is announcing the availability of its enterprise-grade?Data Analyst Agent in AWS Marketplace, bringing AI-assisted, conversational analytics directly into existing AWS environments.
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See also Data
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1. The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.
2. This page was compiled by M. E. Hopper for ECOMP 6011: Databases in Education while serving as a faculty member of Technology in Education at Lesley University. It has been expanded and updated since then.