network database

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)