Yes, MS Access is a relational database management system (RDBMS).
RDBMS is a special type of database management system that stores data in form of related tables. It is differ from flat file databases because it uses several tables for a single database.
Microsoft Access is an application development tool, not a DBMS. Access has some DBMS-like features (strictly, they are features of the Jet software, which happens to be bundled with Access and other Microsoft products). Those DBMS features are not relational because they are based on the SQL DBMS model rather than the RDBMS one. Although SQL is partially inspired by the Relational Model it is non-relational in many important respects, especially because it uses a "tuple-bag" representation instead of the set-theory representation required by E.F.Codd's relational model. In other words SQL breaks what Codd called the "Information Rule".
Ms access is called relational DBMS because
MS access is a software application. You can create RDBMS in MS Access also.
Access is a Relational Database.
Relationship of Microsoft access to dbms
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My sql, Microsoft sql , Microsoft Access, dBase, Filemaker pro are the examples for dbms and oracle and sql server are the examples for rdbms
advantage of rdbms over dbms
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User see the data as Relations [ Tables ] in RDBMS. Where as the user need to know the datastructures and the methods to access them in DBMS. Both store the data required but how the user perceive the data matters.
A Data Base Management System (DBMS) is a generic term like tin of food. Microsoft Access (msaccess) is a relational database (RDBMS). There are also network, hierarchical, OLAP and other types of databases. So msaccess is a DBMS but not the other way around.
A DBMS becomes an RDBMS when the data contained in its tables are related to one another by referential integrity rules. DBMS - Database Management System RDBMS - Relational Database Management System
DBMS and RDBMS both are used for storing data. DBMS is the database management system that refers to the collection of interrelated data. RDBMS define relation between the tables in the database
There are various types of databases available in the marketOracle database belongs to Oracle CoporationSql Server belongs to Microsoft CoporationMysql belongs to MySQL AB (founded 1995, acquired by Sun Microsystems 2008)Sybase belongs to SyBase
The basic categorisation is into DBMS and RDBMS. DBMS stands for DataBase Management System and RDBMS for Relational DataBase Management System. The best example for DBMS is MS Access and that for RDBMS is Oracle and MySQL.Learn Oracle. That will be the best. But the ones widely used are MS SQL and MS Access. Addition: There are flat databases, relational databases, semantic databases, ...
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The name of few DBMS are FOXPRO, MS-ACCESS, SQL Server, My SQL, ORACLE, etc.