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Distributed Database Systems
3.5 Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Distributed DBMSs
A distributed DBMS may be classifi ed as homogeneous or heterogeneous. In an ideal distributed
database system, the sites would share a common global schema (although some relations may be
stored only at some local sites), all sites would run the same database management software and
the sites are aware of the existence of other sites. In a distributed system, if all sites use the same
DBMS product, it is called a homogenous distributed database system. However, in reality, a
distributed database has to be constructed by linking multiple already-existing database ...