Object Oriented model Vs. Flat file model

The difference between Object oriented and Flat file model

The object oriented structure has the ability to handle graphics, pictures, voice and text, types of data, without difficultly unlike the other database structures. This structure is popular for multimedia Web-based applications. It was designed to work with object-oriented programming languages such as Java.

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A flat file database describes any of various means to encode a database model (most commonly a table) as a single file (such as .txt or .ini).