DBM

See also: dBm and dbm

English

Proper noun

DBM

1. (Philippines) Initialism of Department of Budget and Management.

See also

• (executive departments of the Philippines) DAR, DA, DBM, DEPDev, DepEd, DOE, DENR, DOF, DFA, DOH, DHSUD, DICT, DILG, DOJ, DOLE, DMW, DND, DPWH, DOST, DOT, DTI, DOTr

Noun

DBM (plural DBMs)

1. (databases) Initialism of DataBase Manager, a family of key-value databases originating in early Unix.
   • 2007, Nick Kew, The Apache Modules Book: Application Development with Apache, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 80:

     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.