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What exactly is a database engine?

I have gone through the definition on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_engine several times: A database engine (or "storage engine") is the underlying software component that a database management system (DBMS) uses to create, read, update and delete (CRUD) data from a database. What I do not understand is what is left to do, isn't CRUD all that the databases do? If the database engine performs these functions, what does the rest of the database do?

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CRUD is meant to define the characteristics necessary for a database as it relates to persistent storage...

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What should be used in Chrome packaged apps to enable a "SQL like" database for persistant data and offline apps? (without database engine)

I would like to find a way to easily build a packaged app that deals with persistant user data without force the user to install a Database engine. Also app has to work in offline mode ... Perimeter : Chrome apps. Thanks ! :-)

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If I'm not mistaken, Chrome stores some of its persistant data in SQL Lite.  I'm not sure if you can...

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What Python web framework, template engine and database should I choose for a real-time social network?

I just started learning Python and I want to start BIG ( even if a make mistakes in the process :) ) with a project in order to improve my skills. It will be a real-time social network with lots of JOINS (similarity between objects) in the database....

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From personal experience, I can attest to Tornado's simplicity and power. The key phrase here is "...

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What database they use for Internet Search Engine like Yahoo! or Google ?

Last night, i saw the question about 'what is Yahoo Answers! database', and suddenly i'm curious, what database they use for Internet Search Engine like Yahoo! or Google ? ...show more

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Google's database is proprietary, as is their search algorithm. In fact, they have many patents on it...

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What database does Google App Engine use?

I would like to develop apps utilizing "Google App Engine" to power the infrastructure. I am interested to know what type of database this system supports. For example: can I use PostgreSQL or MySQL?

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http://code.google.com/appengine... I think you have to learn GQL in order to interact with the app...

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What is the best donor / wealth database out of Donor Search, Wealth Point, and Wealth Engine?

Trying to decide on a database system for searching wealth information on prospective donors at my non-profit.

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I've been a prospect researcher for a few years and have used all the major providers (DonorSearch,...

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What is the concept behind making a search engine robot collect website meta-data, store in a database, and follow a link to visit a new website?

to be more precise, i would like to draw interest of Programmers, designers and software engineers to help me make me understand the basic algorithm of designing the search engine bot.

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A Search Engine (for example - Google) deploys number of techniques for optimizing the search results...

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What is the best database for a search engine?

I know that I can't beat Google etc. I'll start out small and grew in time. The engine is going to be very specific in a few areas. Is RDSM the way to go or should I look into a document based one?

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Easiest is to look at the Apache Lucene project (Welcome to Apache Lucene), which is a fully-working...

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What query google,yahoo or other search engine uses to get data from its database?

Actually m trying to find out the way google gives the list of links when we give some data in search box. So on what basis it gives the result??

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The basis is most read answers of the same query. These search engine searches with relevance. That...

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What if we don't provide any primary key explicitly in database table? Then how query would be evaluated by the DBMS engine?

What part of DBMS decide which column or columns to consider as primary key if we don't provide?

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The answer to a question like this is "it depends". To know for sure you would have to examine...

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