what is database?

Database Management System

what is data?

In simple words data can be facts related to any object in consideration.

For example your name, age, height, weight, etc are some data related to you.

A picture , image , file , pdf etc can also be considered data.

what is Database?

Database is a systematic collection of data. Databases support storage and  manipulation of data. Databases make data management easy. Let's discuss few examples.

An online telephone directory would definitely use database to store data pertaining to people, phone numbers, other contact details, etc.

Your electricity service provider is obviously using a database to manage billing , client related issues, to handle fault data, etc.

Let's also consider the facebook. It needs to store, manipulate and present data related to members, their friends, member activities, messages, advertisements and lot more.

We can provide countless number of examples for usage of databases .

what is Database management system?

Database Management System (DBMS) is a collection of programs which enables its users to access database, manipulate data, reporting / representation of  data .

It also helps to control access to the  database.

Database Management Systems are not a new concept and as such had been first implemented in 1960s.

Charles Bachmen's Integrated Data Store (IDS) is said to be the first DBMS in history.

With time database technologies evolved a lot while usage and expected functionalities of databases have been increased immensely.