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Factual database

A factual database is an electronic archive containing factual data (for example chemical formulas, statistic or demographic data, graphics, numeric or alphanumeric information, law and so on).

Full text database

A full text database is an organized collection of bibliographic records  that contains the complete text of books, dissertation, journals, magazines, etc.

It may be general in scope or cover a specific academic discipline. 

Most of full text databases are proprietary, available by licensing agreement from vendors.