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What is the difference between Database and DBMS?

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Manoj Pandey, DB & DW/BI Lead at Microsoft, SQLwithManoj.com, Photography

Answered Feb 17, 2016

DBMS which means Database Management System, which is a concept and a set of rules
that all or major Database Systems follows. Some Database systems follows most of these
rules, and some follows only only certain rules.

Most Database products/tools uses SQL language, which is just a ANSI standard, and is used
as a base with most Database systems, like Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, IBM DB2
have used this as a base and extended/enhanced in their database systems.

Database is a collection of related data stored in several tables, and linked through foreign
keys. You can create and have several databases in a Database-product instance. Check about
Database in this video:
I've written a blog on the same, check here: What is SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL and difference
between them
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Pankaj Singh, Training in database management software

Answered Oct 5, 2015

Generally if  anyone asked about the difference between Database and DBMS then everyone
says that both are same but there is huge difference between them are as:-

1.Both are part of the Database system.

2.DBMS contains
        a) Query Processing software.
        b)storage Management software.
    Examples :-MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle
3.Databse contains
      a) Data
      b)schema(structure of the table ).
4.Both are interdependent. Open In App

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Thomas Tydal, programming since 1988

Updated May 7, 2013

A database is any collection of data, it can be words you write on a piece of paper or a digital
file. A DataBase Management System (DBMS) is a piece of software that manages databases
and lets you create, edit and delete databases, their tables and their data. Examples of a
DBMS are MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
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David Brower, Husband, dad, programmer/architect, occasional blogger, onetime

sound engineer.
Updated Dec 19

Thomas Tyndall's answer is correct on the fine point, though many in the field will run the
terms together interchangeably.   Not unlike predilections in the war of pronunciation
between "Sequel" and Ess-Cue-Ell, some folks would just rather say words than emit lettered
acronyms from their mouths.
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Rajan Burad
Answered Jan 6

DATABASE: It’s a collection of data which is related to each other.

For example, you’ve employee data which consists of employee_id, employee_name,

employee_city and account details data which consists of bank_account_num,
bank_acc_name, employee_id.

Both these information are stored in two separate tables. One EMPLOYEE table and other
ACCOUNT DETAILS table.

Now you need to gather information of an employee along with his bank account name. So
how you gonna do it?

There comes the concept of DBMS, a management system that manages the database. A
system that extracts the relevant information of an object (entity) the way you want.

Without a DBMS, a database is of no use.

Excel is a database which can store your data but to extract the information you need to
manually dig row by row.

Similar to Excel we’ve Oracle, Microsoft SQL server that store the data and offer
instructions(commands) via which user can fetch data as per their requirement.

Hope it helps!
Thanks :)
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Tarriq FerroseKhan
Answered Nov 8

Database (DB) has a specific way to store data (+index) to satisfy the intent it is being
designed for (transaction or reporting),

The management system(MS) ensures it and does multiple other functions (not limited to..)

- Ensures ACID compliance

-Manages concurrent (simultaneous Read & write) requests,

-interacts with OS to demand the necessary System Resources(Memory, CPU)

-executes the requests (Queries), provided they are from Authenticated source and
Authorized to access the data being requested (DB Security) returns the result set, via
network interfaces.

-allows to backup & restore data

-maintains DB health to ensure performance.

-Provides facility to handle High availability and Disaster Recovery scenarios.

Thanks
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Alam Mushir
Answered Oct 13, 2015

Simply put, A database is the set of all data relevant to a particular domain/area/enterprise. A
DBMS is a specialized system application that helps you manage databases.

Wikipedia: Database
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Saranya Kolukuluri, studies Computer Science (2019)

Answered Jul 26, 2017

Database : Related sets of data is called database, where data is a fact that can be stored. So,
in database physical data is stored where relationship is mandatory.

Database Management System(DBMS) : Set of programs which you write so that you can
easily manipulate , store, retrieve the data is called DBMS. It is written to interact with
database.

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Aditya Sharma
Answered Nov 24, 2015

DBMS- is a software that manages databases created by you. It provides facility to edit and
delete it. It is like a database manager.This is a whole system that provides different
functionalities of search, creation/maintenance etc.
Eg. Oracle,db2,Microsoft Access.a

Database- Collection of interelated data. It is a system intended for storing and retreiving
large amount of data. It is made up of tables and contains rows and columns. It is like
spreadsheets,excel.
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Josep Lluis Larriba Pey, professor at the Technical University of Catalunya and
founder of Sparsity Technologies
Answered Mar 24, 2013

Very well answered by Thomas Tydal.

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Tushar Goyal, studied at Bachelor of Technology Degrees

Answered Oct 12, 2015

Database is just data stored in a specific way whereas a dbms(database management system)
is a software which helps u to manage the database as is clear from the full form.Using a
dbms one could retrieve,manipulate or add data into that database.
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Shubham
Answered Sun

A database is a structured set of data held in a computer, especially one that is accessible in
various ways.

Now, the set of rules , programs, software that you follow to store, access, delete, modify that
set of data is DBMS or simply, the system you follow to manage your data in a database(a
structured set of data held in a computer) is DBMS. Ex- SQL
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Ashraful Islam, B.S.C Computer Science Engineering & Web Development,

Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (...
Answered Jan 29, 2017
A collection of data is referred as database.

A collection of interrelated data and a set of programs to access those data is called database
management system(DBMS).
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Anil Joshi, Mysql dba

Answered Nov 16, 2015

DBMS is the system under which many databases created. It basically organizes all
databases.

Database is the repository under which variaous table are created.

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Ron Warshawsky, Startup executive and database expert

Answered Jun 10, 2015

Check wiki:

Database
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