Storage is typically data, but the degree of structure is flexible. Unstructured storage is essentially a filesystem (although even then filesystems have structure to them). Structured storage is often called a "database system" in some particular shape.

Some various data sources

Link sites

Conceptual thoughts

Feels like a database implementation is made up of primarily three components:

Models/"Shapes" to data

Storage

Topology options

Automation

Datamining

Information Retrieval

Storage and retrieval

DBaaS: Database-as-a-Service

Articles

Books


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Last modified 05 May 2025