The Concept of the Database
Understand the basic concept of the database in this lesson.
Introduction to databases
A database is persistent storage that can be used for specific applications. It’s usually used to store a lot of data from a web application, including posts from a social media application and products from an e-commerce application. A database can also log data for debugging purposes. There are two main types of databases, relational and non-relational.
Relational database
A relational database is a database that is structured relationally using tables that can be interconnected using relation mechanisms. In relational databases, a single record or data is stored inside a table that contains many columns. The table inside the relational database is illustrated in this image.
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