What is the difference between a database and a website?

Can a website be a database?

Web database definition Used for both professional and personal use, they are hosted on websites, and are software as service (SaaS) products, which means that access is provided via a web browser. One of the types of web databases that you may be more familiar with is a relational database.

Does a website require a database?

Do I always need to use a database for a web project? No, not at all. Static websites with no dynamic data will not require any data connection. Or, for some web applications data can be stored directly as a static file in a folder system (such as XML or even directly as HTML).

Do all websites use databases?

Most websites today are database driven. This means the content, code and other components are stored in a database. The pages on the site don't actually exist permanently.

What is considered an online database?

An online database is a database accessible from a local network or the Internet, as opposed to one that is stored locally on an individual computer or its attached storage (such as a CD). Online databases are hosted on websites, made available as software as a service products accessible via a web browser.