Database application

Database

database management systemdatabasesDBMS

A database application is a computer program whose primary purpose is entering and retrieving information from a computerized database.

DBMSs are found at the heart of most database applications.

Relational database Database model NoSQL Table (database)Database application

Sabre (computer system)

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Early examples of database applications were accounting systems and airline reservations systems, such as SABRE, developed starting in 1957.

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IBM 3270

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Systems in the 1970s might have accomplished this by having each user in front of a 3270 terminal to a mainframe computer.

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Mainframe computer

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Systems in the 1970s might have accomplished this by having each user in front of a 3270 terminal to a mainframe computer.

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Personal computer

PCPCspersonal computers

By the mid-1980s it was becoming more common to give each user a personal computer and have a program running on that PC that is connected to a database server.

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Server (computing)

serverserversserver computer

By the mid-1980s it was becoming more common to give each user a personal computer and have a program running on that PC that is connected to a database server.

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Examples of early database applications with Web interfaces include amazon.com, which used the Oracle relational database management system, the photo.net online community, whose implementation on top of Oracle was described in the book Database-Backed Web Sites (Ziff-Davis Press; May 1997), and eBay, also running Oracle.

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EBay

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Examples of early database applications with Web interfaces include amazon.com, which used the Oracle relational database management system, the photo.net online community, whose implementation on top of Oracle was described in the book Database-Backed Web Sites (Ziff-Davis Press; May 1997), and eBay, also running Oracle.

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Electronic health record

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Electronic medical records are referred to on emrexperts.com, in December 2010, as "a software database application".

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SAP ERP

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Some of the most complex database applications remain accounting systems, such as SAP, which may contain thousands of tables in only a single module.

SAP SE SAP S/4HANA SAP R/3 Transport (SAP)SAP NetWeaver

Facebook

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Many of today's most widely used computer systems are database applications, for example, Facebook, which was built on top of MySQL.

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MySQL

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Many of today's most widely used computer systems are database applications, for example, Facebook, which was built on top of MySQL.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.comAmazonAmazon.co.uk

Examples of early database applications with Web interfaces include amazon.com, which used the Oracle relational database management system, the photo.net online community, whose implementation on top of Oracle was described in the book Database-Backed Web Sites (Ziff-Davis Press; May 1997), and eBay, also running Oracle.