What is RDBMS?

RDBMS is stands for Relational DBMS.

• RDBMS is the extension of DBMS.
• DBMS is built to support relational Model is known as RDBMS
• DBMS are for smaller organizations with small amount of data, where security of the data is not of major concern and RDBMS are designed to take care of large amounts of data and also the security of this data.
• In the Relational Data Model, Data represents in the form of table.
• DBMS that stores the data in the form of Related Tables is known as RDBMS.

Refer the screenshot to know about various components of the basic Relational Model “Table”

 

Advantages of RDBMS:-

• Single database can be categorized/split across different tables, which is differ from flat-file database that has one single table to store the entire database data.
• In RDBMS, Same Database can be analyzed/viewed in different ways
• RDBMS Data is structured in form of DB tables, records, fields, etc.,

Example for RDBMS:-
The most popular RDBMS are MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, MySQL and MS Access