Why though? This has nothing to do with Harry Potter. (Also I don't think copyright would be appropriate here, maybe trade marks? She doesn't have one.)
Yes, she (and the publisher) most certainly have trademarks as well as copyrights in the characters. "Famous" trademarks are especially fraught with peril.
"Database" isn't entirely correct, its a distributed K/V store. Maybe its just me, but the word database implies a lot of additional functionality that Voldemort doesn't have.
A database is a system intended to organize, store, and retrieve large amounts of data easily.
I don't think calling Voldemort is wholly inaccurate, but I suppose you could make the case that it doesn't do the system justice due to the connotation of the word database (which usually makes people think of a SQL database).
Maybe he was thinking of querying by values? My (admittedly cursory) examination of this suggests I must know the key and only the key to get a value. To me a database is searchable.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 43.3 ms ] threadBut hopefully doesn't provide copies of your data to your enemies by accident.
adj. voldemorted - distributed
A database is a system intended to organize, store, and retrieve large amounts of data easily.
I don't think calling Voldemort is wholly inaccurate, but I suppose you could make the case that it doesn't do the system justice due to the connotation of the word database (which usually makes people think of a SQL database).
ex: "WINGARDIUM LEVIOSA `users` WHERE userID = 9.75"