To appreciate where we are, we must look at where we started.

In his forties he stood at a window and watched the street perform its small, obedient rituals. A woman in a red coat laughed at something a child said; a man walked three small dogs; the baker slid a tray of kouign-amann into the display case, and the shop bell sang. He had learned the hard lesson that certainty is often less valuable than presence. He could find a photograph, but he could not make the memory live any longer than anyone else could make it. He could assemble truth, but truth in the raw sometimes tore.

The process of creating a visual representation of the entire information system, defining how data is related. Choosing the Right DB for Your Project

In our digitally driven world, data is the new oil. But raw data is useless without a place to store, manage, and retrieve it efficiently. This is where the comes in. A database is an organized collection of structured information—or data—typically stored electronically in a computer system.