Database application

By the mid-1980s it was becoming more common to give each user a personal computer and have a program running on that PC that is connected to a database server.

Information would be pulled from the database, transmitted over a network, and then arranged, graphed, or otherwise formatted by the program running on the PC.

Some of the most complex database applications remain accounting systems, such as SAP, which may contain thousands of tables in only a single module.

[3] Many of today's most widely used computer systems are database applications, for example, Facebook, which was built on top of MySQL.

For example, many physics experiments, e.g., the Large Hadron Collider,[5] generate massive data sets that programs subsequently analyze.