问题
IS Ms Access DBMS or RDBMS? I also do Google to find answer of this question,but in some website or blog says it is DBMS while others are says it is RDBMS.. so what is correct answer? and Please understand why it is DBMS or RDBMS?
回答1:
MS Access is a Relational Database Management System so therefore RDBMS, however you can use it in a non-relational fashion if you so wish so it can be used as a DBMS.
回答2:
Short Answer: Both.
Detail:
Microsoft Access is a DBMS but also something more: a personal database system. That is, a DBMS plus an application generator. While Microsoft Access contains a DBMS engine that creates, processes, and administers the database, it also contains form, report, and query components that are the Microsoft Access application generator.
Source:
Page 13
Database Processing: Fundamentals, Design, and Implementation
David M. Kroenke, David J. Auer
12th Edition
ISBN13: 9780132145374
回答3:
Microsoft Access is an application development tool, not a DBMS or an RDBMS.
The Access application is bundled with (but distinct from) Jet/ACE, which is a system for sharing data over a filesystem or via ODBC. In principle that can include accessing relational or non-relational databases. Jet/ACE isn't "relational" though. It is based (very loosely) on the SQL model of data rather than the relational model but is more of an ISAM cursor-engine than any SQL DBMS.
回答4:
MicrosoftAcess is a type of mysql and it is a DBMS
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