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Data models in database management

Published 1 January 1980
E. F. Codd
Citations114

TL;DR

A model is a collection of rules that implicitly or explicitly define the set of consistent database states or changes of state or both and may sometimes be expressed as insert-update-delete rules.

Abstract

It is a combination of three components: 1) a collection of data structure types (the building blocks of any database that conforms to the model)

Keywords

Computer Science