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:
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...