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A database management system (DBMS) is a system for the management of any collection of compatible, and ideally normalized, data.

A relational database is a collection of data structured in accordance with the relational model. Database management systems are often used to implement relational databases in software.

A database application is computer software written to manage the data of a particular application or problem. Features and Abilities

One can characterize a DBMS as an "attribute management system" where attributes are small chunks of information that describe something. For example, "color" is an attribute of a car. The value of the attribute may be a color such as "red", "blue", "silver", etc. Lately databases have been modified to accept large or unstructured (pre-digested or pre-categorized) information as well such as images and text documents. However, the main focus is still on descriptive attributes.

DBMS roll together frequently-needed services or features of attribute management. This allows one to get powerful functionality "out of the box" rather than program each from scratch or add and integrate them incrementally. Such features include: