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Data and Database Management Flashcards

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It is a collection of text, numbers, symbols, images, or videos in raw or unorganized form.

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Data

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What has to be processed or provided with a context, before it can have meaning?

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Data

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It describes the object under consideration using a finite set of discrete classes.

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Qualitative or Categorical Data

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This type of data can’t be counted or measured easily using numbers and therefore divided into categories.

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Qualitative or Categorical Data

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Since qualitative data can’t be counted or measured easily using numbers, it is therefore divided into what?

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Categories

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This type of data are usually extracted from audio, images, or text medium.

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Qualitative or Categorical Data

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What are the two subcategories of qualitative data?

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Nominal
Ordinal

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The values grouped into these categories have no meaningful order and no hierarchy.

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Nominal

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What are the examples of Nominal level values?

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Gender
Occupation

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These types of values have a natural ordering while maintaining their class of values.

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Ordinal

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What is the example for the Ordinal level value?

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Ranking of student’s grades

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This data type tries to quantify things and it does by considering numerical values that make it countable in nature.

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Quantitative Data

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What are the two subcategories of quantitative data?

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Discrete
Continuous

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The numerical values which fall under are integers.

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Discrete

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Which category is it where whole numbers are placed?

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Discrete

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What is the example of Discrete?

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Number of clothes in a cabinet

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The fractional numbers are considered as continuous values.

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Continuous

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What are the examples of Continuous?

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Days in a week
Months in a year

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It is an organized or classified data, which has some meaningful values for the receiver.

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Information

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It is the processed data on which decisions and actions are based.

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Information

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For the decision to be meaningful, the processed data must qualify what characteristics?

(CAT)

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Completeness
Accuracy
Timely

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This characteristic of information means that it should be available when required.

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Timely

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This characteristic of information means that it should be accurate.

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Accuracy

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This characteristic of information means that it should be complete.

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Completeness

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It refers to the raw input that when processed or arranged, makes meaningful output.

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Data

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It is usually the processed outcome of data.

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Information

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What happens when data is processed into information?

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It becomes interpretable and gains significance.

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What is done before data becomes interpretable and gains significance?

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Data is processed into information

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What is the equation for information?

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Data + Meaning = Information

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It is produced as a result of understanding the given information and using that information to gain knowledge of how to solve problems.

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Knowledge

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Knowledge can be what?

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  • Acquiring and remembering a set of facts
  • The use of information to solve problems
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23
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What are the two types of knowledge?

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Explicit Knowledge
Tacit Knowledge

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It is the acquisition by a person of information or the understanding of information.

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Explicit Knowledge

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25
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This knowledge can be easily passed on to others.

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Explicit Knowledge

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25
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Most forms of explicit knowledge can easily be stored in certain media like what?

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Documents
Books
Computers

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This is documented information that can facilitate action.

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Explicit Knowledge

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This type of knowledge can be easily identified, articulated, shared, and used.

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Explicit Knowledge

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What are the good examples of Explicit Knowledge?

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Encyclopedias
Textbooks

29
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This knowledge is difficult to pass on to someone else.

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Tacit Knowledge

30
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This knowledge is embedded in the human mind through experience and jobs.

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Tacit Knowledge

31
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This knowledge includes insights and intuitions.

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Tacit Knowledge

32
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What is the fragmented pieces of symbols and characters threaded together?

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Data

33
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What is the refined data?

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Information

34
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What do you call the useful information?

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Knowledge

35
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What can give you a lack of context when looked at singularly?

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Data

36
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What can give you context to data?

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Information

37
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What can give you depth in understanding an information?

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Knowledge

38
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What is the outcome for information and knowledge?

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Information = Comprehension
Knowledge = Understanding

39
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What is incomprehensible independently?

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Data

40
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What is amplifies consciousness?

What is meaningless without being compiled into a sensible structure?

What improves representation?

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  1. Knowledge
  2. Data
  3. Information
41
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What are not sufficient to make any predictions?

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Data and Knowledge

42
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What do you call when prediction is possible if one possesses the require experience?

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Knowledge

43
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What is the data that is connected together to form a statement?

What cannot make any statements?

What brings the ability to have a deduced conclusion using pieces of information?

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  1. Information
  2. Data
  3. Knowledge
44
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What cannot independently be a basis for question formation?

What is a text that answers the ‘how’ and ‘why’?

What is a text that answers the ‘who’ ‘what’ ‘when’ and ‘where’?

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  1. Data
  2. Knowledge
  3. Information
45
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It is the interdisciplinary process of creating, using, sharing, and maintaining an organization’s information and knowledge.

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Knowledge Management

46
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It is a multi-faceted strategy for making the best use of organizational knowledge assets in order to achieve business objectives.

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Knowledge Management

47
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What are the business objectives under Knowledge Management?

(BESIC)

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Boosting innovation
Enhancing competitive advantage
Sharing insights
Improving performance
Continuously improving the organization

48
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It is part of the organizational learning process.

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Knowledge Management

49
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What focuses on the strategic management of knowledge as a shareable business asset?

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Knowledge Management

50
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What is the core goal of knowledge Management?

(What, Where, Why, Who)

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What: Connect people looking for knowledge
Where: Within the organization
Why: Increase overall knowledge level
Who: Team and Organization

51
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Four Knowledge Management Objectives

(SIMI)

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Streamlining and enhancing the KE (knowledge environment)

Improving the KCP (knowledge capture process)

Maintaining knowledge as an OA (organizational asset)

Increasing asset to OK (organizational knowledge)

52
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It is an organized collection of information that can be easily accessed, managed, and updated.

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Database

53
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What can typically contain aggregations of data records or files, containing information about sales transactions or interactions with specific customers?

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Computer Databases

54
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Who provides the users with access to some permissions in a database?

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Database Managers

55
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Database Managers provides users with what?

(ASA)

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Ability to control read/write access
Specifically report generation
Analyze usage

56
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What does the abbrev. in ACID compliance mean?

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Atomicity
Consistency
Isolation
Durability

57
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What do some databases offer to guarantee that data is consistent and that transactions are complete?

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ACID Compliance

58
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Who, where, when did the relational database was invented?

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Who: E.F. Codd
Where: IBM
When: 1970

59
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What are the types of databases?

(OG-NCRD)

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Object-oriented Database
Graph Database
NoSQL Database
Cloud Database
Relational Database
Distributed Database

60
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It is a tabular database in which data is defined so that it can be reorganized and accessed in a number of different ways.

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Relational Database

61
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It is made up of a set of tables with data that fits into a predefined category, where each table has at least one data category in the columns.

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Relational Database

62
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It is the standard user and application program interface for a relational database.

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SQL

63
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What does SQL stand for?

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Standard Query Language

64
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These are easy to extend, and a new data category can be added after the original database creation without requiring to modify all the existing applications.

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Relational Database

65
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In a Relational Database, what can be added after the original database creation?

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New data category

66
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It is a database in which portions of the database are stored in multiple physical locations.

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Distributed Database

67
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Distributed Database can be what?

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Homogeneous
Heterogeneous

68
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What do you call the kind of Distributed Database where the physical locations have the same underlying hardware and run the same OS and DB Applications?

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Homogeneous Distributed Database

69
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What kind of Distributed Database is it when the hardware, OS, and DB applications are different in every location?

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Heterogeneous Distributed Database

70
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It is a database that has been optimized or built for a virtualized environment, either in a hybrid, public, or private.

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Cloud Database

71
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What are the benefits that the Cloud Database provides?

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Ability to pay for Storage Capacity and Bandwidth on a per-use basis

Provide scalability on demand

Highly available

72
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Cloud Database gives enterprises the opportunity to support business applications in what?

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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

73
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What kind of data base is useful for large sets of distributed data?

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NoSQL Database

74
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What are effective for big data performance issues that relational databases aren’t built to solve?

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NoSQL Database

75
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What are most effective when an organization must analyze large chunks of unstructured data or data stored across multiple virtual servers in the cloud?

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NoSQL Database

76
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Where do the items created using object-oriented programming languages are often stored?

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Relational Database

77
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It is organized around objects rather than actions, and data rather than logic.

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Object-oriented Database

78
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It is a type of NoSQL database that uses graph theory to store, map, and query relationships.

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Graph Database

79
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It’s basically collections of nodes and edges.

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Graph Database

80
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What do the nodes and edges represent in a Graph Database?

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Nodes - an entity
Edges - connection between nodes

81
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What is growing in popularity for analyzing interconnections?

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Graph Database

82
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It is a declarative programming language and protocol for graph database analytics that Graph Databases often use.

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SPARQL

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