network database

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network database - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  network database
  
     <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
     hierarchical database (one owner) or relational database
     (no explicit owner).
  
     (1998-10-07)