Database Management System

See: Database

• Software designed to assist in maintaining and utilizing databases
• Files and FSs by themselves can be unpredictable (Concurrent System, sudden power loss), and don't provide any strong guarantees about data consistency
• DBMSes are easier to use and come with these guarantees out of the box

Benefits

• Data Independence
  • Data usage separated from data storage
• High-level query language
  • Specify what you want, now how to retrieve it
• Provide:
  • Strong guarantees about data integrity and recovery
  • Concurrent data access
  • Efficiency even with large volumes of data