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What is the difference between RDBMS and DBMS ?

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What is a database management system?

Database management system (DBMS) is a software to manage large set of data on a computer hardware. RDBMS stands for relational database management system.

What is the key difference between DBMS and RDBMS?

Actually they are closely related. You can say that an RDBMS is a subset/extension of a DBMS.

DBMS applications can be relational or non-relational. Note that DBMS often used in place of non-relational DBMS (one of the reason newbies get confused).

A non-relational DBMS stores data as tables (without any relations between tables) or flat files. Document databases (Neo4j) and graph databases (MongoDB) are examples of DBMS.

On the other hand a RDBMS application store data in tabular form with relations between the tables. MySQL, PostgresSQL are examples of RDBMS. Tables in RDBMS can have a unique identifier (called primary key). Data values are stored in the tables and each of these values can be accessible through structured query language (SQL).

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