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Authors:
Elmasri Navathe
Chapter:
And Database Users
Exercise:
Review Questions
Question:7 | ISBN:9780133970777 | Edition: 7

Question

Discuss the differences between database systems and information retrieval systems.

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Answer

Database Technology:

  • Applies to structured and formatted data that arises in routine applications.
  • Uses a given Database to generate information.

 

      Retrieval:

  • Uses an alternate approach to generate information, data is indexed, cataloged, and annotated using key words.
  • concerned with searching for material based on these keywords and with many problems dealing with document processing and free form text processing
  • Uses a network or the World Wide Web to gather information.
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