A database management system (or DBMS) is simply a computerised data storage system. Users of the system are given the ability to execute a variety of actions on such a system, such as manipulating the data in the database or managing the database structure itself. Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are classified based on their data structures or data types.
The advantages of hierarchical and relational database systems are similar. RDBMS offers the additional, major advantage of being non-navigational over hierarchical databases. By navigational, we mean that in a hierarchical database, the application programmer must understand the database structure. To travel from the root segment to the required child segments having the appropriate characteristics or items, the application must have particular logic. Even when the intervening segments are not required, the software must nonetheless access them.
One of the most significant benefits of utilising a DBMS is that it allows users and application programmers to access and utilise the same data at the same time while maintaining data integrity. When data can be shared via a DBMS rather than producing new iterations of the same data saved in new files for each new application, it is better safeguarded and maintained.
- Multi-tier data storage
- Built-in data integration
- Independently scaled
- Data security and privacy
- Advanced multi-model engines
- Multi-cloud deployment
