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Database applications

Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.

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Logical model

Software; Database applications

The phase of database design that is concerned with identifying the relationships among the tables.

Client

Software; Database applications

In the client/server model of communications, the entity that remotely accesses resources of a computer server, such as power, memory, or software.

Client/server

Software; Database applications

An architecture that links many personal computers or workstations (clients) to one or more large processors (CPUs or servers).

Cluster

Software; Database applications

In data warehousing, a means of sorting and storing related data from different tables, advantageous in an environment where related data is commonly queried together.

Mapping

Software; Database applications

The process of matching data from source systems to the structures in a data warehouse.

Static

Software; Database applications

In Java, a language keyword used to define a variable as a class variable.

Massively parallel processing (MPP)

Software; Database applications

The shared-nothing architecture of parallel computing that takes a number of nodes and enables them to communicate rapidly.

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