Describe the components of the database system.

The various components of the database system are described below:

1. Users — Users can be of varied types — Database administrators or DBAs, System or Application developers and end-users. DBMS provides the following critical services to the user :
   1. Database Creation — DBMS helps the user in creating and defining the required data or in turn, a database. It manages and organizes the required data and databases.
   2. Database Maintenance — A DBMS provides maintenance of data and database by addition, deletion, modification and regularly updating tables and their records.
   3. Database Processing — DBMS performs one of the major tasks of query processing — it processes the queries or the information requirement of the users and retrieves necessary information from the database.
2. Database Application — Database applications may be personal, departmental, commercial and internal. It may be general-purpose or customized as per the needs of a user.
3. DBMS — Software that allows users to define, create, access and manage databases is termed as a DBMS, for example, MySQL, Oracle, etc.
4. Database — Database is an organized collection of logically related data.