DISTRIBUTED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (DBMS) ARCHITECTURES AND DISTRIBUTED DATA INDEPENDENCE

Query Processing for Data Retrieval from Distributed Database Management System

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Disima: a Distributed Image Database Management System

Separating indexes from data: a distributed scheme for secure database outsourcing

Database outsourcing is an idea to eliminate the burden of database management from organizations. Since data is a critical asset of organizations, preserving its privacy from outside adversary and untrusted server should be warranted. In this paper, we present a distributed scheme based on storing shares of data on different servers and separating indexes from data on a distinct server. Shamir...

A performance evaluation of distributed database architectures

The globally integrated contemporary business environment has prompted new challenges to database architectures in order to enable organizations to improve database applications performance, scalability, reliability and data privacy in adapting to the evolving nature of business. Although a number of distributed database architectures are available for choice, there is a lack of an in-depth und...

Interoperability Architectures for Distributed Multimedia Database Systems

An increasing number of information systems today do not just manage formatted, table-structured data, but also multimedia data, e.g. video, audio, and image. Due to the special treatment they require, these data are often controlled by special servers, whereas the formatted data are stored in conventional databases. The applications, however, should have an integrated view of all their data, s...