What is the difference between file system and database management system?

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File System - Acts a local, saves in a temp file and synchronizes with the database later part of time (scheduled).
whereas,
DB System - Directly saves into the database, whatever the transaction be(whatever the time taken - this may lead to low performance).

 

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