Meanings
- PhilippinesabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Department of Budget and Management.
plural DBMs
- abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of DataBase Manager, a family of key-value databases originating in early Unix.
DBMs have been with us since the early days of computing, when the need for fast keyed lookups was recognized. The original DBM is a UNIX-based library and file format for fast, highly-scalable keyed access to data.
2007, Nick Kew, The Apache Modules Book: Application Development with Apache, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 80
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