File/data structure information

I have been Googling to find information about the pros and cons of different file and data structures within a file incl. databases). Would a appreciate a pointer to either some online documents or a good primer text. I don't have any specific questions and the information needs to be language and operating system agnostic.

The applications are for storing/finding strings, strings within strings, numerical data, etc. In other words, very general.

Thanks,
Dave

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