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It literally means: "a structured set of data held in a computer, especially one that is accessible in various ways."

You are right that restart survivable persistence has absolutely nothing to do with it.



This comment branch is a weird topic, but the implication of these definitions is that modern languages come packaged with multiple databases, some of which can scale to billions of writes per second (arrays, lists, sets, etc.)




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