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Database Management System
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A database management system (DBMS) is a software used for manipulating (storing, querying) a collection of logically related data (database).

A DBMS together with a database form the database system.

A DBMS that supports the relational data model, is often denoted as a RDBMS. In case it supports other data models it is often subsumed as a NoSQL-System.