A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a database management system

(DBMS) that is based on the relational model as introduced by E. F. Codd. Most popular
commercial and open source databases currently in use are based on the relational database
model.

A short definition of an RDBMS may be a DBMS in which data is stored in the form of tables
and the relationship among the data is also stored in the form of tables.

Answer

RDBMS - Relational Database Management System - Multiple users can access and there will be
relationships between the tables, security is increased
DBMS - Database Mangement system - small number of users

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DBMS is the Database Engine itself

like MySql Server

RDBMS is the GUI (Graphical user interface)

for any Database Engine which used in

CRUD (Create, read, update and delete)
like PHPmyAdmin

Everything in this first answer (except the first sentence) is wrong.

A DBMS, is any system that manages databases, an RDBMS is a subtype of DBMS that is
limited to what are called relationaldatabases. Relational databases must use 'relations' to
connect data (a 'relation' might be 'contains' or 'owes-money-to' or any other relationship between
two objects [rows in a table, or two or more tables]) as rows have no structure in an RDBMS -
they have to be 'flat' unlike an 'object oriented' dbms which can 'nest' things (as you may be used
to in object oriented programming languages. Check out 'relational algebra' to see some of the
theory behind RDBMSs or even 'RDBMS' and 'SQL' on wikipedia for a better understanding of
how they are actually used) P.S. nearly every DBMS is an RDBMS these days, check out
apache's 'couchDB' for a non-relational (document-oriented) DBMS. Dbms=Database
management system
Rdbms = Relational Database mgt system. Named relational because of
relational algebra and/or set notation which database storage is based on.

Rdbms is a type of dbms

Short for relational database management system and pronounced as separate letters, a type of
database management system (DBMS) that stores data in the form of related tables. Relational
databases are powerful because they require few assumptions about how data is related or how it
will be extracted from the database. As a result, the same database can be viewed in many
different ways.

An important feature of relational systems is that a single database can be spread across several
tables. This differs from flat-file databases, in which each database is self-contained in a single
table.

Almost all full-scale database systems are RDBMS's. Small database systems, however, use
other designs that provide less flexibility in posing queries.