Data Base Instance

AKA: Structured Dataset.
Context:
- It can range from being a Structured Data Base (with structured data items) to being a Semi-Structured Data Base to being an Unstructured Data Base.
- It can range from being a Large Data Base to being a Small Data Base.
- It can range from being a DBMS Database Instance to being a Data Base File.
- It can range from being a Propositional Data Base to being a Relational Data Base.
- It can range from being a Static Data Base to being an Active Data Base.
- It can range from being a Transactional Data Base to being an Analytical Data Base (such as a data warehouse).
- It can have: Size, Dimensionality, ....
- It can be an input to Database Management, Database Processing, Database Querying.
- It can be created by a Database Creator.
- It can be designed by a Database Modeler and be represented by a Database Model.
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Example(s):
- a Canonical Database, such as IMDB Database.
- a Curated Database, such as SWISS-Prot DB.
- The one that supports the ACM Digital Library.
- The CPROD1 Product Offer Database.
- an Array Data Structure.
- A Relational Table in an RDBMS, such as a Transaction Database Table.
- an Ontology.
- a Feature Vector Table.
- An XML File.
- a Codebase Repository.
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Counter-Example(s):
- a Program File.
- an Unstructured Data File.
See: Data Column, Structured Representation, Machine-Processable Artifact, Corpus, Software Program Data Structure, Multivariate Dataset.

References

(Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database Retrieved:2020-10-2.
- A database is an organized collection of data, generally stored and accessed electronically from a computer system. Where databases are more complex they are often developed using formal design and modeling techniques.
  The database management system (DBMS) is the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data. The DBMS software additionally encompasses the core facilities provided to administer the database. The sum total of the database, the DBMS and the associated applications can be referred to as a "database system". Often the term "database" is also used to loosely refer to any of the DBMS, the database system or an application associated with the database.
  Computer scientists may classify database-management systems according to the database models that they support. Relational databases became dominant in the 1980s. These model data as rows and columns in a series of tables, and the vast majority use SQL for writing and querying data. In the 2000s, non-relational databases became popular, referred to as NoSQL because they use different query languages.

http://www.lib.fsu.edu/help/libraryterms
- Database: a structured collection of information in computerized format, searchable by various types of queries; in libraries, often refers to electronic catalogs and indexes.

http://metacyc.org/MetaCycDefinitions.shtml
- QUOTE: Structured Data. Structured data are data that have been represented in a manner that allows computation with those data. For example, the data within MetaCyc are highly structured because different properties and relationships of metabolic enzymes, pathways, and reactions have been carefully dissected and assigned to distinct fields of a database so that they are independently queryable and computable. Therefore, we can ask questions across the data such as "find all enzymes that use magnesium as a cofactor" or "find all pathways in which pyruvate is an input substrate".

http://www.finance.gov.au/Publications/australian-government-technical-interoperability-framework/glossary.html
- QUOTE: Information that has been organised to allow identification and separation of the context of the information from its content.

(Chaudhuri & Dayal, 1997) ⇒ Surajit Chaudhuri, and Umeshwar Dayal. (1997). “An Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP Technology.” In: ACM SIGMOD Record, 26(1). doi:10.1145/248603.248616
- QUOTE: A data warehouse is a “subject-oriented, integrated, time-varying, non-volatile collection of data that is used primarily in organizational decision making.” 1 Typically, the data warehouse is maintained separately from the organization’s operational databases.