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Distributed Database Systems
CHAPTER SUMMARY
This chapter introduces several atternative
architectures for a distributed database system
such as Client/server, peer-to-peer and MDBSs.
A client/server system is a versatile, message-
based and modular infrastructure that is intended
to improve usability, fl exibility, interoperability
and scalability as compared to centralized, time-
sharing mainframe computing. In a client/server
system, there are two different kinds of nodes:
clients and servers. In simplest sense clients
request for the services to the server and servers
provide services to the clients.
In peer-to-peer architecture, each ...