Suggest an editImprove this articleRefine the answer for “What is a database?”. Your changes go to moderation before they’re published.Approval requiredContentWhat you’re changing🇺🇸EN🇺🇦UAPreviewTitle (EN)Short answer (EN)A database is an organized structure for storing, managing, and quickly accessing information; put simply, it's a place where data is stored so it can easily be found, changed, and analyzed. **Key point:** data is stored as tables, records, and fields, and dedicated software, a database management system (DBMS, e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB), handles adding, changing, deleting, and searching that data.Shown above the full answer for quick recall.Answer (EN)ImageA database is an organized structure for storing, managing, and quickly accessing information. Put simply, it's a place where data is stored so it can easily be found, changed, and analyzed. Here are the key points: 1. **Structure**: data is stored as tables, records, and fields (e.g. an "Employees" table with the columns "Name", "Age", "Job Title"). 2. **Management**: dedicated software, a database management system (DBMS), helps add, change, delete, and search data. 3. **Examples**: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB. 4. **Use**: any system that needs to store and quickly process information, online stores, banks, social networks, medical systems.For the reviewerNote to the moderator (optional)Visible only to the moderator. Helps review go faster.