# Databases overview

> What Formclick Databases are, how they relate to your forms, and what you can do with them.

Source: https://docs.formclick.io/databases/databases-overview

A **database** in Formclick is a set of **tables**. Each table has **fields** (its columns) and **records** (its rows), like a lightweight spreadsheet where every column has a real type. Connect an HTML form to a table and every new submission is saved there as a record automatically.

## What you can do

- Save form responses as structured records you can filter, sort, update and export.
- Use 27 field types, including linked records, lookups, rollups and formulas.
- Start from a template such as CRM, HR & Recruitment or Event Registration.
- Import a CSV file into a table, or export a table to CSV.
- See every change to a record in its history.
- Give teammates admin, editor or viewer access per database.

## How it relates to submissions

Databases don’t replace your submissions. Formclick always saves a submission first, emails it and shows it in **Submissions**, exactly as before. Writing it to a table is an extra, separate step. See [Save form responses to a database](https://docs.formclick.io/databases/database-form-sync).

> **On every plan:** Databases and form-to-database sync are included on every plan, including Free. Plans differ in how many databases, tables, records and storage you get. See [Plans and limits](https://docs.formclick.io/databases/database-limits).

- [Create a database](https://docs.formclick.io/databases/create-database): Start blank or from a template.
- [Save form responses](https://docs.formclick.io/databases/database-form-sync): Connect a form and map its fields.
- [Field types](https://docs.formclick.io/databases/database-field-types): All 27 field types explained.