Data bank

Not to be confused with Databank.

Databank

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Meaning of data bank

In database management and information architecture, a data bank or databank is a repository of information on one or more subjects – a database – that is organized in a way that facilitates local or remote information retrieval and is able to process many continual queries over a long period of time. A data bank may also refer to an organization primarily concerned with the construction and maintenance of such a database.

A data bank may be either centralized or decentralized, though most usage of this term refers to centralized storage and retrieval of information, by way of analogy to a monetary bank. The data in a data bank can be anything from scientific information like global temperature readings, and governmental information like census statistics, to financial-system records like credit card transactions, or the inventory available from various suppliers.

In computing, the term databank is also obsolete (1960s through 1970s) computer jargon for database itself, and is frequently used in that sense in materials written in that period.

See also

• List of databases
• Star Wars Databank
• Protein Data Bank
• National Trauma Data Bank
• Memory bank
• International Tree-Ring Data Bank
• Hazardous Substances Data Bank
• Electron microscopy data bank
• Dortmund Data Bank
• Casio Databank
• Conformational dynamics data bank
• Databank Systems Limited — a former New Zealand banking agency

Sources

•  This article incorporates public domain material from Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on January 22, 2022. (in support of MIL-STD-188).
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.