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Oracle
database consists of a collection of data managed by an Oracle database
management system. Popular generic usage also uses the term to refer to
the Oracle DBMS management software, but not necessarily to a specific
database under its control. One can refer to the Oracle database management system unambiguously as Oracle DBMS or (since it manages databases which have relational characteristics) as Oracle RDBMS. Oracle Corporation itself blurs the very useful distinction between: 1. data managed by an Oracle RDBMS 2. an Oracle database, and 3. the Oracle RDBMS software itself when it refers nowadays to the Oracle RDBMS (the software it sells for the purpose of managing databases) as the Oracle Database. The distinction between the managed data (the database) and the software which manages the data (the DBMS / RDBMS) relies, in Oracle's marketing literature, on the capitalisation of the word database. Oracle Corporation produces and markets the Oracle DBMS, which many database applications use extensively on many popular computing platforms. |