Database Management System [DBMS]
A database [collection of related records] and the software is
referred to as the database management system or DBMS.
Databases have a number of inherent properties to ensure the data
is managed to ensure its integrity and quality. There is no standard
definition of this.
Database management systems are usually categorized according
to the data model that they support: relational, object-relational,
network, and so on.
An RDBMS supports a relational
database model, the most common database structure.
The data model will tend to determine the query languages that
are available to access the database.
A DBMS is independent of the data model, and is concerned with
managing factors such as performance, concurrency, integrity, and
recovery from hardware failures. There are large differences between
See Oracle DBMS
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Model | Object Model | Other
Models | DBMS | Contextual
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