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| | Database Models: Hierarcical, Network, Relational, Object-Oriented, Semistructured, Associative and Context. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | These record types are the equivalent of tables in the relational model, and with the individual records being the equivalent of rows. |
 | | In semistructured data model, the information that is normally associated with a schema is contained within the data, which is sometimes called ``self-describing''. |
 | | Such databases subsume the modelling power of recent extensions of flat relational databases, to nested databases which allow the nesting (or encapsulation) of entities, and to object databases which, in addition, allow cyclic references between objects. |
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