This chapter introduces the architecture of different distributed systems such as client/server system
and peer-to-peer distributed system. Owing to the diversity of distributed systems, it is very dif-
fi cult to generalize the architecture of distributed DBMSs. Different alternative architectures of the
distributed database systems and the advantages and disadvantages of each system are discussed in
detail. This chapter also introduces the concept of a multi-database system (MDBS), which is used to
manage the heterogeneity of different DBMSs in a heterogeneous distributed DBMS environment.
The classifi cation of MDBSs and the architecture of ...
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