- Lotus Notes is a multi-value database system

- The files are different from RDBMS as they are document-centric.

- Lotus Notes database supports to persist multiple values in items.

- It comes with built-in document-level access control.

- It persist Rich Text data.

- A Lotus Notes DBMS can be used to map a RDBMS by using DECS, JDBCSQL or NotesSQL

- The extension for Lotus Notes database is “.nsf”