DBMS stands for Database Management System. It's a set of computer programs developed to allow the control of the database development to be placed in the hands of the database administrators. Whereas a RDBMS could be defined as a DBMS where information is stored in the form of tables. You should be able to access a DBMS even when the program that created the data no longer exists. The difference
. is that RDBMS adds on the condition that the system must support a table structure to hold the data.
