CS352 Lecture: Distributed Database Systems last revised 11/27/06 ...

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CS352 Lecture: Distributed Database Systems last revised 11/27/06 Materials: Projectable showing horizontal and vertical fragmentation I. What is a Distributed Database System? - ---- -- - ----------- -------- ------ A. In a distributed database system, the database is stored on several computers located at multiple physical sites. 1. This distinguishes it from a parallel system, in which the database is stored on multiple computers at the same physical site.

• response to queries by the use of parallel processing
• fragmentation
• corporate headquarters
• communication cost
• distributed system
• queries
• site
• table
• query
• data