Relational database
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A database consisting of separate tables, having explicitly defined relationships, and whose elements may be selectively combined as the results of queries.
- 2 a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes wordnet
Etymology
From the use of relation to denote a set of ordered tuples, i.e. a table in the context of a relational database.