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Database Management System

4.1. Hierarchical Database

A kind of database management system that links records together like a family tree such that each record type has only one owner, e.g. an order is owned by only one customer. Hierarchical structures were widely used in the first mainframe database management systems. However, due to their restrictions, they often cannot be used to relate structures that exist in the real world.

4.2. Network Database

A kind of database management system in which each record type can have multiple owners, e.g. orders are owned by both customers and products. This contrasts with a HierarchicalDatabase (one owner) or RelationalDatabase (no explicit owner).

4.3. Relational Database

A database based on the RelationalModel developed by E.F. Codd. A relational database allows the definition of data structures, storage and retrieval operations and integrity constraints. In such a database the data and relations between them are organised in tables. A table is a collection of rows or records and each row in a table contains the same fields. Certain fields may be designated as keys, which means that searches for specific values of that field will use indexing to speed them up.

4.4. Object Relational Database

5. See Also

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