Short for relational database management system and pronounced as separate letters, a type of database management system (DBMS) that storesdata in the form of related tables. Relational databases are powerful because they require few assumptions about how data is related or how it will be extracted from the database. As a result, the same database can be viewed in many different ways.
An important feature of relational systems is that a single database can be spread across several tables. This differs from flat-file databases, in which each database is self-contained in a single table.
Almost all full-scale database systems are RDBMS's. Small database systems, however, use other designs that provide less flexibility in posing queries.
KB Systems home page KB (Knowledge Based) Systems is a provider of relational database management tools for the M application development and user community. This home page offers links to their products and services, company information, and related Web links.
