Villar, Allan Patrick D.

02/07/2020
BIT21 Data Models

 Hierarchical database model - A hierarchical database model is a data model in which the data
are organized into a tree-like structure. The data are stored as records which are connected
to one another through links. A record is a collection of fields, with each field containing only
one value.

 Relational model - The relational model for database management is an approach to managing
data using a structure and language consistent with first-order predicate logic, first described in
1969 by English computer scientist Edgar F. Codd, where all data is represented in terms of
tuples, grouped into relations.
 Network model - The network model is a database model conceived as a flexible way of
representing objects and their relationships. Its distinguishing feature is that the schema,
viewed as a graph in which object types are nodes and relationship types are arcs, is not
restricted to being a hierarchy or lattice.
 Object database - An object database is a database management system in which information is
represented in the form of objects as used in object-oriented programming. Object databases
are different from relational databases which are table-oriented. Object-relational databases are
a hybrid of both approaches.

 Entity–relationship model - An entity–relationship model describes interrelated things of

interest in a specific domain of knowledge. A basic ER model is composed of entity types and
specifies relationships that can exist between entities.
 Document Object Model - The Document Object Model is a cross-platform and language-
independent interface that treats an XML or HTML document as a tree structure wherein each
node is an object representing a part of the document. The DOM represents a document with a
logical tree.

 Entity–attribute–value model - is a data model to encode, in a space-efficient

manner, entities where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that can be used to
describe them is potentially vast, but the number that will actually apply to a given entity is
relatively modest.
 Star Schema - the star schema is the simplest style of data mart schema and is the approach
most widely used to develop data warehouses and dimensional data marts.