The document discusses relational databases and relational database management systems (RDBMS). It defines key concepts like relations, entities, attributes, and relationships between tables. It explains how data is stored in rows and columns. It also discusses relational database languages including data definition language (DDL) for specifying database schema, data manipulation language (DML) for accessing and manipulating data, data control language (DCL) for user access control, and transaction control language (TCL) for transaction management.