Document-Oriented Database Instance

A Document-Oriented Database Instance is a database instance of a document-oriented database.

• AKA: Semi-Structured Database.
• Context:
  • It can be represented by a Document-Oriented Database Snapshot.
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• Example(s):
  • Wikidata KB.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Relational Database Instance.
• See: Semi-Structured Dataset, Semi-Structured Model, NoSQL DBMS.

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References

2014

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata#Concepts
  • Wikidata is a document-oriented database, focused around items. Each item represents a topic (or an administrative page used to maintain Wikipedia) and is identified by a unique number, prefixed with the letter Q — for example, the item for the topic Politics is Q7163.

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