Discuss the major capabilities of DBMS and why is a relational DBMS so powerful? Solution DBMS :- DBMS is a software or tool which can be used for managing and maintaining the data within the database. Major Capabilities of DBMS :- 1.Data Storage 2.Data Retrieval 3.Data Update 4.Security 5.Data Independence Explanation :- Generally a person has to work with huge amount of information everyday. Inorder to interact with the large amount of data we need a system where we can store, manipulate, security, sharing the information all over the world. It is a core reason the industries are maintaining database management tools. A relational DBMS is so powerful. Because :- * In RDBMS model the data will be stored in the form of tabular format. where as table is nothing but a collection of rows and columns. * RDBMS model will provide high level security by using authentication and autherisation. * RDBMS maintains accurate and consistency of the data with the help of data integrity mechanism. * RDBMS supports the data manipulations by using DML commands. * RDBMS provides faster rate retrieving the data by using index mechanism..