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| Database Management System |
| A DBMS is a computerized record-keeping system that stores, maintains and provides access to information. A database system involves four major components |
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| Users DBMS are used by any reasonably self-contained commercial, scientific, technical or other organization from a single individual to a large company and a DBMS may be used for many reasons. Data itself consists of individual entities, in addition to which there will be relationships between entity types linking them together. Given an enterprise with a nebulously defined collection of data, the mapping of this collection onto the real DBMS is done based on a data model. Various architectures exists for databases and various models have been proposed including the relational, network, and hierarchic models. |
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