WAIS

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Wide area information server

A central database used for information access by network users in multiple physical locations. Often refers to an Internet database, but WAIS servers have existed for some time outside the Internet arena.^[1]

See also

• Database
• Flat file database
• Full text database
• Relational database
• SQL
• WAIS - wide area information server

Footnotes

1. ^  Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005).