Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases

  • Authors:
  • Amit P. Sheth;James A. Larson

  • Affiliations:
  • Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ;Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR

  • Venue:
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

A federated database system (FDBS) is a collection of cooperating database systems that are autonomous and possibly heterogeneous. In this paper, we define a reference architecture for distributed database management systems from system and schema viewpoints and show how various FDBS architectures can be developed. We then define a methodology for developing one of the popular architectures of an FDBS. Finally, we discuss critical issues related to developing and operating an FDBS.