What is the difference between dataset and database?

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Lokesh Sah picture Lokesh Sah · Oct 16, 2011 · Viewed 57k times · Source

What is the difference between a dataset and a database ? If they are different then how ?

Why is huge data difficult to be manageusing databases today?!

Please answer independent of any programming language.

Answer

Mike Sherrill 'Cat Recall' picture Mike Sherrill 'Cat Recall' · Oct 16, 2011

In American English, database usually means "an organized collection of data". A database is usually under the control of a database management system, which is software that, among other things, manages multi-user access to the database. (Usually, but not necessarily. Some simple databases are just text files processed with interpreted languages like awk and Python.)

In the SQL world, which is what I'm most familiar with, a database includes things like tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, permissions, and data.

Again, in American English, dataset usually refers to data selected and arranged in rows and columns for processing by statistical software. The data might have come from a database, but it might not.

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