WEB 1.1 - Module 5: Lesson 1

Learning Outcomes 💫

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to...

• Explain why a database is useful to a large-scale application.

Video Companions 🎥

Video 1 - Introducing databases technologies and how they fit into an application

Video 1 - Introducing databases technologies and how they fit into an application

Exercises 💪

Answer the questions in the README file in this Repl.it and submit your work.

Written Companion 🗒

<aside> 🤔 How do we store massive amounts of data in an organized fashion that can also be accessed/modified quickly?

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A technology designed to hold data can be defined as a database. Key features of a database include:

• it being a place to store data (i.e. user profiles, website usage, business transactions, etc.)
• typically stores data using key-value pairs that exists seperate from a web server
• multiple applications can access its data simultaneously