Distributed Databases (cont)
Advantages of distributed databases
- allow information from multiple DBs to be merged
- provide for replication of some data (resilience)
- allow for possible parallel query evaluation
Disadavtanges of distributed databases
- cost of mapping between different schemas (federated)
- communication costs (write-to-network vs write-to-disk)
- maintaining ACID properties in distributed transactions
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