Friday, October 11, 2013

Difference between Network Database Structure and Relational Database Structure

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Difference between Network Database Structure and Relational Database Structure: There are three (Hierarchical, Network and Relational) approaches for organizing records and their relationships logically in databases. These approaches are known as database structures.

Network Database Structure
Relational Database Structure
1
This structure is not as flexible as Relational structure is.
This is most flexible structure for representing data relationships.
2
DBMS based on Network structure are no more in used.

Most of the DBMS in market are based on relational structure and known as RDBMS.
3
In this relationships between records are represented in a graph manner.
In this relationships between records are represented in table form.

4
Database based on this structure was not efficient in terms of data access, storage etc.
Database based on this structure are very efficient in terms of data access and storage etc.

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