databaseless

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adjective

Without a database.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivedatabaseless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout a database.

    DATABASELESS SECURITY SYSTEM

    1992 June 9, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents, volume 1139, number 2, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1183, column 1
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    However, most of currently proposed OO database programming languages tend to be "databaseless" database programming languages, that is, languages quite independent of existing database systems.

    1991, Advances in Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Amsterdam: IOS Press, →OCLC, pages 208–209

    Two independently derived denotational semantics for Prolog are contrasted, Arbab and Berry's for the full language and Nicholson and Foo's for a databaseless language.

    1994, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, volume 16, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Association for Computing Machinery, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 605

    Everyone needs a database; how else can you remember Uncle Cyril's birthday, phone numbers, what's in your CD collection, which night is garbage night, that favourite “spag. bol.” recipe, the itinerary for your next tour of the great Art Galleries of Europe? I remember when I was “databaseless”, yes folks, a sad and sorry time it was but I have put all that behind me now.

    1998 July, Lyall McDermott, “Feature: Databases”, in Kelvin Fyfe, editor, Mouse Movements […], volume 5, number 7, Hobart, Tas.: Tasmanian Atari Computer Club, page 10, column 1

    Let’s generate an application now. You can call it whatever you like. Mine is named DatabaselessApplication. Next we’ll create a simple class in lib for which to write some tests. Let’s be really simple and create a class called Adder that adds numbers together: DatabaselessApplication/lib/adder.rb

    2006 July 6, Chad Fowler, “Recipe 14: Rails without a Database”, in Rails Recipes, Raleigh, N.C.; Dallas, Tex.: Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, part II (Database Recipes), page 59

    The NAP CA might have to issue and maintain a database of IPsec certificates for IPsec enforcement that last only a short time, such as 72 hours. Therefore, maintaining the database of issued certificates is of little critical value. Microsoft created out of its own need a new feature for the NAP CA, a Databaseless CA.

    2011, David R. Miller et al., “Planning NAP IPsec Enforcement”, in MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-647): Windows® Server Enterprise Administration, 2nd edition, Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press, →ISBN, chapter 5 (Designing a Network Access Strategy), lesson 2 (Designing Network Access Policy and Server and Domain Isolation)

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