Difference between RDBMS and DBMS?

@sand102 (368)
India
December 19, 2006 12:33pm CST
Difference between RDBMS and DBMS?
4 responses
Sanya106
@Sanya106 (59)
• India
21 Dec 06
RDBMS stands for realtional database management system and dbms stands for database management system as the name suggest RDBMS the main word is relationship .. it means you can relate tables .. via foreign keys and references between two tables or more ...
nihalnihal
@nihalnihal (660)
• India
7 Jan 07
That's perfectly true. Relational means that tables are related and linked through keys.. Good answer..
Sportello
@Sportello (97)
• Italy
19 Dec 06
Simply RDBMS is a specific type of DBMS. The first R stays for "Relational" that indicates the model on which the DB is based. There are other types of DBMS based on different models, such as hierarchical or object-oriented
sand102
@sand102 (368)
• India
21 Dec 06
good answer
mythmoh
@mythmoh (3984)
• United States
21 Dec 06
dbms-DataBase Management system.RDBMS-Relational database management system.Codd's has laid 12 rules.if any DBMS which satisfies codd's rule then it is called as RDBMS.there is no full rdbms as even oracle satisfies only 11.5 rules.Ms-Access is an exapmle for dbms and oracle,sql are example for rdbms.
ilahi_mansoor
@ilahi_mansoor (147)
• India
21 Dec 06
RDBMS MEANS RALATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMNET SYSTEM. DBMS MEANS DATABASE MANAGEMNET SYSTEM