CHAPTER 22
Distributed Database Systems
As wonderful as database systems are, they would not be delivering on their true potential, if they could not be networked in a distributed environment. This chapter discusses distributed database systems under the following subheadings:
- Introduction
- Advantages of Distributed Database Systems
- Twelve Rules for Distributed Database Systems
- Challenges to Distributed Database Systems
- Database Gateways
- The Future of Distributed Database Systems
- Summary and Concluding Remarks
22.1 Introduction
The concept of a distributed system was introduced in Chapter 2. A distributive database system consists of a collection ...
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