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"A database is an organized collection of data." By definition. First sentence in wiki. I don't know what are your definitions.

• smittywerben 8y ago
  I could be misinterpreting but I believe a lookup table is more of a suggestion than anything. It would be easier than for instance a hash table, or rather in networking, a deterministic solution is more common. I'm obviously not a systems programmer though so I can't provide much else.
• jacquesm 8y ago
  If you want to call a lookup table a database I'm ok with that.
  • hinkley 8y ago
    But that means I'm writing my own databases at least a couple times a year. I'm not sure I'm okay with that.