Editing Data store

{{Short description|Repository for data collection storage and management}}
A ''' data store''' is a repository for persistently storing and managing collections of data which include not just repositories like databases, but also simpler store types such as simple files, emails, etc.<ref>{{cite web
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A ''[[database]]'' is a collection of [[Data (computing)|data]] that is managed by a ''[[database management system]]'' (DBMS), though the term can sometime more generally refer to any collection of data that is stored and accessed electronically. A file is a series of bytes that is managed by a file system. Thus, any database or file is a series of bytes that, once stored, is called a data store.

[[MATLAB]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Datastore - MATLAB & Simulink|url = http://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/datastore.html|website = in.mathworks.com|access-date = 2016-01-11}}</ref> and Cloud Storage systems like [[VMware]],<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/vim.Datastore.html|title = Managed Object - Datastore|date = 2016-01-11|access-date = 2016-01-11|website = VMware|last = VMware}}</ref> [[Firefox OS]]<ref>{{cite web|title = Data Store API|url = https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Data_Store_API|website = Mozilla Developer Network|access-date = 2016-01-11}}{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223222343/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Data_Store_API |archivedate=23 December 2014}}</ref> use ''datastore'' as a term for abstracting collections of data inside their respective applications.

==Types==
Data store can refer to a broad class of storage systems including:
* [[Paper]] files
* Simple files like a [[spreadsheet]]
* [[File system]]s
* [[Email]] storage systems (both [[Server (computing)|server]] and [[Client (computing)|client]] systems)
* [[Database]]s
**[[Relational database]]s, based on the [[relational model]] of data
** [[Object-oriented database]]s. They can save [[Object (computer science)|object]]s of an [[Object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] design.
** [[NoSQL]] databases
***[[Key–value database]]s
***[[Wide-column store]]s
***[[Graph database]]s
* [[Distributed data store]]s
* [[Directory service]]s
* [[VMware]] uses the term ''datastore'' to refer to a file that stores a [[virtual machine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/vim.Datastore.html |title=Managed Object Description |publisher=Pubs.vmware.com |access-date=2019-07-02}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Data architecture]]
* [[Data flow diagram]]
* [[Database]]
* [[Distributed data store]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Databases]]
[[Category:Database management systems]]


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