Database Management Systems (DBMS)
Often the terms database and DBMS are used interchangeably. However, a database management system is a software product that manages a database. Several important features are desired from a DBMS and most modern databases provide some mechanisms for these features:
It should be easy to store and retrieve data
It should provide security for the data stored
It should provide some method for concurrent access to the database and control of this concurrency
There should be some method to recover the database in case of a database crash
Data consistency and integrity should be retained
Metadata should be available. Metadata refers to the data that provides information about the stored data. In other words, a data dictionary ...
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