DBM

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DBM

proper noun

Philippines, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Department of Budget and Management

noun DBMs

abbreviation, initialism Initialism 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.

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@misc{dbm_2026,
  title = {DBM},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dbm},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}