Database

A database, also known as a database system (DBS), is a system for electronic data management. The aim is to store large amounts of data efficiently, consistently and permanently and to make the required subsets available to users and application programs in different, needs-based display formats. A DBS consists of two parts: the management software, known as the database management system (DBMS) and the amount of data to be managed, the database (DB) in the narrower sense, also known as the "database". The way in which such a system stores and manages data is determined by the database model. The most common form of database system is the relational database system. The term database (consisting of DBMS and data) described here must be distinguished from database applications such as order management and ordering, customer and address management, invoicing or LIMS.