Distributed database technology: An assessment

✍ Scribed by W.T. Hardgrave

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 926 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7206
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7206(78)90003-4

✦ Synopsis

This article reviews the current state of distributed database technology and discusses several major problem areas that are critical for its succes in non-trivial applications. The paper also discusses several rules-of-thumb that a manager considering a distributed Approach will want to consider. Several hardware confiyurations are enumerated and evaluated as part of a gener,rl framework that helps in understanding the evolutionary nature of distributed configurations.

In distributed systems, different users often want to maintain different views of the same data. This problem and possible sclutions are discussed. The topic of languages for use with dpecialized data-base machines is a central issue. because the responsibilities of a data-base machine vis-a-vis the hostmachine depend to a large extent on the choice of language (or pro:ocol) that is used for communication between them. Finally, same of the available literature is reviewed and discussed. Other iilrportant topics such as integrity, security and performance are not treated in depth.