Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System (MUMPS), is a programming language that provides tools to support database management systems. MUMPS was originally only used by hospitals to access medical records. Now MUMPS is also used by other entities (such as banks, stock exchanges, travel agencies) where multiple users need to access the same databases at the same time.

Because MUMPS values are stored as text strings, you can share the same MUMPS database between disparate architectures, such as VAX, DEC Alpha, SUN, IBM PC and HP workstations.