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Distributed Databases and Client-Server
Architectures
Chapter 25
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Chapter Outline
Distributed Database (DDB) Concepts
Data Fragmentation, Replication and Allocation
Types of Distributed Database Systems
Query Processing
Concurrency Control and Recovery
3-Tier Client-Server Architecture
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- Distributed Database (DDB) Concepts ...
It is a system to process Unit of execution (a transaction) in a
distributed manner. That is, a transaction can be executed by
multiple networked computers in a unified manner.
DDB can be defined as a collection of multiple logically related
database distributed over a computer network.
A distributed database management system (DDBMS) is a software

Source: Adam, Salah - Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

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