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The goal of this (future) article is threefold (for now):

  • List some useful Wikipedia resources on general database issues
  • Point to other articles in this Wiki
  • Show where in educational technology various kinds of databases are being used

A guide to Wikipedia's database articles

(by no means complete, these are just some important entry points)

General

Database: History, Overview of Database models, Technical internals, Overview of Database applications

Models and query languages

Database models: Overview of flat, hierarchical, network, relational and object models
Data model (short overview)
Query language (short table)
Relational model (the model)
Relational database (the model again)
SQL
XML databases and files
XQuery (to query XML data and XML databases)
XQuery Update Facility (Stub)
XML data and files
XSLT
XPath
XPointer
E4X (a ECMAScript/ActionScript extension)
Document Object Model), SAX, etc.
SPARQL (to query RDF)
LDAP
Flat file
Regular expression

Technology

Database management system
Relational database management system (RDBMS)
Comparison of relational database management systems
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server
Object-relational database (ORDBMS)
Comparison of object-relational database management systems
Object database OODBMS]
List of object-oriented database management systems
XML database
eXist
Simple
FileMaker
Special purpose applications such as reference managers with their own storage engine
Flat file database (can implement various models)
Single file
SQLLite
SQL Server Compact (Microsoft)
Database engines (Low level, i.e. DBMS are built on top)
MyISAM (used by MySQL)
InnoDB (used by MySQL)
BerkeleyDB
dbm