what are the disadvantages of hierarchial database over
RDBMS?

Answer Posted / manjeet kumar

The disadvantages of a hierarchical database are:

·lack of flexibility (non-hierarchical relationships are
awkward to represent; redundancy may be required),
·poor performance for non-hierarchical accesses,
·lack of maintainability (changing relationships may
require physical reorganization of data).

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