MoStacks is not a conventional database management program like e.g. Microsoft Access on Windows or HanDBase on PDAs and smartphones. But it is similar in many ways, and you can use MoStacks like a "traditional" database by relying on the following correspondences:
You can see a stack as a database. The set of all the cards of a given background are like a table. A stack can contain several backgrounds and cards belonging to them, just like a database can contain several tables. A card is like a record or row in a table, and fields are fields, in MoStacks as well as in databases.
In databases you can list records in a sorted way by specifying a field or a group of fields that define the sort order. So, if you want to "play database" with MoStacks as closely as possible, define a sort key for each background and set the background flag for automatic ordering of cards according to key values.
MoStacks however lacks something that is quite common in databases: There is no query language, i.e. no SQL or similar.
The following table summarizes the correspondences:
| "Traditional" Database | MoStacks |
| database | stack |
| table | cards of a background |
| record, row | card / line in list view |
| field | field |