database management system

1. 1.

   a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database

   SynonymsDBMS

   Broadersoftware

   Narrowerrelational database management systemobject-oriented database management system

Questions about database management system

What does database management system mean?

database management system means "a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database".

What is another word for database management system?

Close synonyms include DBMS. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is database management system a common word?

database management system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.