Discuss the hierarchical nature of traditional structured design.?

Question

What kinds of systems and architectures are naturally more inclined to a hierarchy?

Answer 1

Hey Dude,

Interesting question.

DNS is hierarchical in nature, being that .com, .net, .org, .biz, .edu are the top of the food chain. These are root domains. From here you can have things like my.home.business.name.in.wisconsin.mypersonaldomain.com.

Now all of the directory systems are hierarchical in nature. Microsoft has Active Directory. Novell has eDirectory, Netscape has ???? can't remember. These are databases in a weird sort of way.

Which leads to pure databases. A single database is flat, Link databases and you can build a hierarchy

Microsoft also has a flat nature called Peer to Peer networking. No hierarchy.

What specifically are you looking for?