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A database management system (DBMS) is a software package for creating and managing databases. It helps users to store, retrieve, query and manage data into the database.

The primary purpose of a DBMS is

• It provides a systematic method of creating, updating, storing, and retrieving the data stored in a database.
• It enables end users and application programmers to share data, and
• it enables data to be shared among multiple applications.
• It provides facilities for controlling data access, enforcing data integrity, managing concurrency control, and restoring a database.

Well-known DBMSes include:

Ms Access – a lightweight relational database management system (RDMS) included in Microsoft Office.
Amazon RDS – a native cloud DBMS that offers engines for managing MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora databases.
Apache Cassandra - an open-source distributed database management system known for being able to handle massive amounts of data.
MySQL – an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) owned by Oracle.
MariaDB - an open-source fork of MySQL.
Oracle - a proprietary relational database management system optimized for hybrid cloud architectures.
SQL Server – an enterprise-level relational database management system from Microsoft that is capable of handling extremely large volumes of data and database queries.

 

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