• A software system that enables users to define, create, maintain, and control access to a database. The “DBMS” acronym is sometimes extended to indicate the underlying database model, with RDBMS for the relational, OODBMS or ORDBMS for the object-oriented, and ORDBMS for the object-relational model. Other extensions can indicate some other characteristic, such as DDBMS for a distributed database management systems. ← Wikipedia

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