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              <h3 class="title"><a id="idp50574144"></a>Network databases</h3>
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        <p>The "network model" is a fairly old technique for managing and
navigating application data. Network databases are designed to make
pointer traversal very fast. Every record stored in a network database
is allowed to contain pointers to other records. These pointers are
generally physical add