An application programming interface (API) establishes an online connection between a data provider and an end-user. For financial markets, APIs interface trading algorithms or models and an ...

These user-defined data types are called "classes," and one instance of a class is an "object." For example, in a payroll system, a class could be Manager, and Pat and Jan could be two instances ...

Any data that does not fall into the traditional field structure (alpha, numeric, dates) of a relational DBMS. Examples of complex data types are bills of materials, word processing documents ...