# System catalogs

A DBMS store meta-data about database in its internal catalogs

* Tables, columns, indexs, views
* Users, permissions
* Internal statistics

Almost every DBMS stores their database's catalog in it self.

* Wrap object abstraction around tuples.
* Specialized code for "bootstrapping" catalog table.

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