Database management system(DBMS)

• Provides the mechanisms through which data items can be stored, retrieved and changed.
• Maintains a collection of shareable data
• Establishes relationships between data items,
• Minimises data redundancy
• Maintains independence between programs and data
• Provides report generating capabilities, offers query language access for unanticipated requests
• Provides a common and controlled approach for storing and retrieving data
• Facilitates the development of applications

[Ref 95] Shore, B

Examples:

• Used in 4GL's such as Oracle, Informix, Progress, MS-Access
• RDBMS (Relational DBMS) - IBM