Database management system
A database management system (DBMS) is a computer software application which allows user (and other applications) to manage a database.
Description
A general-purpose DBMS is designed to allow the definition, creation, querying, update, and administration of databases.
Well-known DBMSs include MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, SAP HANA, and IBM DB2.
A database is not generally portable across different DBMSs, but different DBMS can interoperate by using standards such as SQL and ODBC or JDBC to allow a single application to work with more than one DBMS.
Database management systems are often classified according to the database model that they support, notably the relational model.
Sometimes a DBMS is loosely referred to as a 'database'.
See also
- Comparison of database tools
- Comparison of object database management systems
- Comparison of object-relational database management systems
- Comparison of relational database management systems
- Data hierarchy
- Data bank
- Data store
- Database theory
- Database testing
- Database-centric architecture
- Outline of databases
- Question-focused dataset
- SQL
External links
- Database @ Wikipedia