| Hierarchy v.s Relational
Which one is the best? All and None. You manage your needs. For a mom-pop store ( food/restaurants) can very effectively be managed with a spread-sheet or Access VBAs; You don't need to use heavy duties like SQL, Oracle etc. In the relational database, a huge tables can be broken-down into smaller tables, with some kind of coding handles called "keys", and you use these keys to manage individual tables without corrupting or duplicating data.
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| Generalized Access Method (GUAM), it is a prism arrangement with a top level access options. Each level the access will split into this and that option. A pointer will access to the right page. What I am afraid of, data duplication, redundancy and you need a middle ware to handle it. (Link to the Business cases). One point this Hierarchical system used in 1969,by North American Rockwell company, to manage a project that sent the mankind to the moon | |
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File System: Hierarchies
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