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I think Network model can be represented by one big table.

Think of a big table. Every record is being placed in the same Table. Not depending on what they are: customers, letters, computers, cars, needles, needle or atom - put them as records to the one Table. Imagine that whenever you enter a new record,

a new field with the same value created automatically.

Thus any and every record can be compared another record.

Not every record can be described in terms of all fields.
 A computer cannot be described by cars,
  so the cell where the record "computer" and the field "car" intersects, is empty or having a value of incomparability.

Depending on what fields what records can describe, data can be sorted. Such Table is maximum flexible, because every new information always can be put to it without losing any information.

Such table can always be broken down to many tables by sorting the records to "customers", "computers" etc.

This kind of table would have unlimited comparation capability, because every element of it would be possible to compare to any other element or any group of elements could always be possible to compare to another group of elements with respect to one or more criteria. Criterium itself would be a record.