Databases - Your Excel sheet in the sky. [The Web Explained: Part 6]
Databases At its core, a database is just a place to persist data about a user, content for your site, or anything else you need to store for easy retrieval or manipulation. You'll also hear this referred to as a persistence layer . We talked at length about various backend frameworks and covered the various features and strengths of each. One nearly universal feature is that they all come with ways to interact with a database in a more simplified fashion. These layers of database