Information Retrieval Fundamentals
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Data retrieval languages aim at retrieving all objects which satisfy clearly defined ______.

conditions

A database system typically stores ______ data in a computer system.

related

The primary goal of a DBMS is to provide an environment that is both ______ and efficient to use.

convenient

The primary objectives of a DBMS include ______, reliability, and multiple users.

<p>Security</p> Signup and view all the answers

A sequence database of annotated bacterial isolates is beneficial for a lab to maintain its own ______ genetic data.

<p>custom</p> Signup and view all the answers

A DBMS consists of ______ data and a set of programs to access those data.

<p>interrelated</p> Signup and view all the answers

Using a custom database allows researchers to ______ the quality of genetic data through fine-tuning parameters.

<p>control</p> Signup and view all the answers

The computing environment Odin is a ______ server that provides a consistent computing environment.

<p>linux</p> Signup and view all the answers

One of the objectives of a DBMS is the ______ of IP.

<p>protection</p> Signup and view all the answers

Cloud computing allows users to access multiple ______ over the internet.

<p>servers</p> Signup and view all the answers

A large amount of data is preferred in computational biology because it supports more ______ statistics.

<p>rigorous</p> Signup and view all the answers

Biocuration is a process that involves the annotation and management of ______ data.

<p>genetic</p> Signup and view all the answers

The physical level of abstraction describes how the data are ______ stored.

<p>physically</p> Signup and view all the answers

The logical level of abstraction describes what data are ______ in the database.

<p>stored</p> Signup and view all the answers

The view level of abstraction exists to ______ users' interaction with the system.

<p>simplify</p> Signup and view all the answers

Database administrators, who must decide what information to ______ in the database, use the logical level of abstraction.

<p>keep</p> Signup and view all the answers

The ______ schema is by far the most important and were changed infrequently.

<p>logical</p> Signup and view all the answers

A database ______ is the collection of information stored in the database at a particular moment.

<p>instance</p> Signup and view all the answers

Database schema refers to the overall design of the database ______.

<p>itself</p> Signup and view all the answers

Data-definition language (DDL) is used to specify what the ______ look like.

<p>data</p> Signup and view all the answers

Data-manipulation language (DML) enables users to ______ or manipulate the stored data.

<p>access</p> Signup and view all the answers

Data manipulation involves ______, insertion, deletion, and modification of information.

<p>retrieval</p> Signup and view all the answers

Domain constraints ensure that each attribute has a ______ of possible values.

<p>domain</p> Signup and view all the answers

Declaring an attribute to be of a particular domain acts as a ______ on the values it can take.

<p>constraint</p> Signup and view all the answers

The database system must therefore perform ______ recovery which means it must detect system failures and restore the database to the state that existed prior to the occurrence of the failure.

<p>failure</p> Signup and view all the answers

It is the responsibility of the ______ manager to control the interaction among the concurrent transactions, to ensure the consistency of the database.

<p>concurrency-control</p> Signup and view all the answers

Either all operations of the transaction are properly reflected in the database or ______ are.

<p>none</p> Signup and view all the answers

Although multiple transactions may execute concurrently, each transaction must be unaware of other concurrently executing ______.

<p>transactions</p> Signup and view all the answers

After a transaction completes successfully, the changes it has made to the database persist, even if there are ______ failures.

<p>system</p> Signup and view all the answers

To scale up to even larger data volumes and even higher processing speeds, parallel databases are designed to run on a ______ consisting of multiple machines.

<p>cluster</p> Signup and view all the answers

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