The Codasyl approach to a database management system architecture stemmed from
the work of a number of committees set up under the auspices of the Conference on
Data Systems Languages (Codasyl) organisation, a body composed of volunteer
representatives of computer manufacturers and users. The Codasyl architecture is an
example of a networkmodel, in that it allows a general network of relationships
between entity types to be represented. Some earlier architectures were restricted to
hierarchical relationships only.
Although the Codasyl model has been superseded in commercial database
applications ...
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