Excel is a spreadsheet - it is less structured than a database and all of the data appears on one (or more) pages along with many calculations and summaries of data.
A database is structured so that all the information is kept in the same format for each member record of the database - Databases are better at processing larger volumes of information.
Some tasks can be performed equally well in either spreadsheet or database -
Often data is stored in a database but analysis is done in the spreadsheet.
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