A number of database architectures exist. Many databases use a combination of strategies.Databases consist of software-based "containers" that are structured to collect and store information so users can retrieve, add, update or remove such information in an automatic fashion...

Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product's source. Open source refers to a program or software in which the source code (the form of the program when a programmer writes a program in a particular programming language) is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge...