plural of algebraic data type

(programming, type theory) A data type formed by combining other types.

(computer science) Any way of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be accessed efficiently.

(general) A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.

To enter data into a database.

(computing) The establishment of equivalence between data collections (typically on different servers, and sometimes between trading partners), where each data element in one item maps to a data item in the other, and their data is equivalent.

(databases) A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that may be commercially useful.

(computing) A file of related records on a computer-readable medium such as disk, especially one on a mainframe computer; a dataset.

(computing) the production of catalogues, price lists etc, using data from a database

(databases) A suite of interrelated computer programs designed to manage message processing and database update in a tightly controlled manner.