Database Management System

Database management systems are used by database administrators to manage and guarantee their data of organization is clean, secure, and consistent. Generally, it aligns with a database model such as hierarchical or relational and provides database maintenance capabilities. 

Relational database management systems (RDBMS), Hierarchical database management systems, Network database management systems, Object-oriented database management systems and Document database management systems are some of the most common types of DBMS.

Hardware, Software, Data, Procedure, Database Access Language and Users are six essential components of database management systems. Commitment is required for successful database management. But, organizations experience many benefits when executed well. Better data integrity, faster data sharing and easy access to backup and recovery are some of them. Data sources can be centralized into several databases to reduce duplicates across the organization. Data integrity can be increased when the right database management system is paired with procedures for data quality reviews. Users can access and share data quickly. The database can also be restored after a system crash or failure. 

Scalability limitations and constraints, data security challenges and database performance issues are some challenges organizations have to be addressed before diving into database management.