Simon Slavin wrote:
> On 2 Sep 2013, at 1:17pm, itli...@schrievkrom.de wrote:
>> At university I learned, that a RDBMS also have these management
>> functionality like "user access", "user roles", "user password",
>> access restrictions ... and all that stuff.
>
> Whoever told you that was wrong.  The user model is not required for
> a RDBMS.

It is required by the SQL standard, but does not make sense without
a client/server model.  Furthermore, embedded databases were often seen
as "not a real database" because they lacked ACID.

> The 'R' stands for 'relational' -- the sort of things SQLite
> implements with FOREIGN KEYS.

The "relational" actually comes from "relational algebra"; in the real
world, these relations are called "tables":
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation_(database)>


Regards,
Clemens
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