What is database?

                     What is Database?

Today, we will be learning about what is meant by database?

The things that we have in our house can also represent the database. For example iron rack that we have in our house consists of rows and columns and that is used to store our clothes,utensils…etc.

In the same way, database also consists of rows and columns which can be accessed easily.

A database is an application that stores the organized collection of records. It can be accessed and manage by the user very easily. It allows us to organize data into tables, rows, columns, and indexes to find the relevant information very quickly.

Each database contains distinct API for performing database operations such as creating, managing, accessing, and searching the data it stores. Today, many databases available like MySQL, Sybase, Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc. In this section, we are going to focus on MySQL mainly.

So, in the further stories let us go into topics deeply and gain more knowledge.