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What is RDBMS?

Explore the fundamentals of Relational Database Management Systems including data stored in tables, relationships through keys, normalization techniques, and ACID transaction properties. Understand how these concepts maintain data integrity and how RDBMS compares with NoSQL databases like MongoDB.

A Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) incorporates the relational data model in which one database entry is referenced to another database entry. The Structured Query Language (SQL) is used to perform operations on RDBMS.

In this management system, the data is stored in the form of tables, rows, and columns. The tables have interdependencies that are created through keys called foreign keys.

Below are a few ways that tables are linked:

  • One-to-one relation: One table record may be linked to one record in another table.
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