Relational database
WordNet
noun
(1) 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"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A database consisting of separate tables, having explicitly defined relationships, and whose elements may be selectively combined as the results of queries.
Related terms
- hierarchical database
- normalization
- SQL
- relational model