Relational Database Management System or RDBMS

Relational Database Management System is computer software/program that is developed based on relational model. At present most modern commercial and open-source database systems are using RDMS. This article explains what a RDBMS is? It also describes the basic overview of RDBMS.

• What is Relational Database Management System (RDMS)?
• Examples of RDMS

What is Relational Database Management System (RDMS)?
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is Database Management System (DBMS) that is based on Relational Model.
Most commercial RDBMS’s use the Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the database. While SQL was invented after the development of the relational model and is not necessary for its use. We can access data from the RDBMS in different ways (like API).

Examples of RDMS
At present there are so many RDBMS are present. Some common RDBMS:

• MS SQL Server
• Oracle
• MySQL
• MS Access
• DB2(IBM)
• Sybase

Because of good functionality and efficiency of RDBMS is the most widely used database management systems.