Distributed database environments
As per the organizational needs and information split and exchange requirements, the distributed database can be designed in one of the following ways, as shown in the following diagram:
Homogeneous distributed database environment
When setting up a distributed database environment, if the same database management system is used for all the database nodes which take part in this distributed database, then it is termed as a homogeneous distributed database environment.
This environment can be represented as in the diagram here:
The following are some of the characteristics of the homogeneous distributed database environment:
- Information is distributed between all the individual database management system's nodes
- Across all the remote databases, the same database management system is used
- All the information is controlled by the distributed database management system, which will ensure that there is no region-specific information in an individual database
- Every global...