Appropriate for courses in Distributed Databases, Distributed Data Management, and Advanced Database Systems.
This text explores the development of distributed database management systems—focusing on concepts and technical issues.
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In the Second Edition of this best-selling distributed database systems text, the authors address new and emerging issues in the field while maintaining the key features and characteristics of the First Edition. The text has been revised and updated to reflect changes in the field. This comprehensive text focuses on concepts and technical issues while exploring the development of distributed database management systems (DBMS). Principles of Distributed Database Systems presents distributed database systems within the framework of distributed data processing in general, rather than as a problem in isolation.
NEW TO THIS EDITION
- The relationship of distributed DBMSs with the new networking technologies is discussed.
- The query processing/optimization chapters now focus on techniques employed in commercial systems and include new algorithms such as randomized search strategies.
- Discussion of advanced transaction models and workflows has been added to the transaction management chapters.
- Full chapters are devoted to parallel DBMSs and distributed object DBMSs.
- Current issues are discussed in a new chapter, including sections on data warehousing, world wide web and databases, push-based technologies, and mobile DBMSs.
- General interoperability issues and distributed object platforms such as OMA/CORBA and DCOM/OLE have been added to the multidatabase systems chapter.
- The authors' web site contains presentation slides, helpful information for instructors, and direct communication with the authors. The url is http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~database/distdb.html.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Very well written and it contains all important algorithms
30 Jun 1999
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This books is a must for someone who is not familiar with distributed databases (both for graduate students and practitioners). It will quickly bring you up to speed. It contains enough depth with respect to the algorithms to give the reader a good grasp of the concepts. However, if the reader wants to implement the concepts then he needs to have systems experience. The book does not contain enough implementation details with respect to real systems. In the next edition, for each of the chapters the authors should talk about the algorithms used by real commercial products (such as Oracle, Informix and DB2). The parallel database chapter and the object databases chapter are both for the most part excellent. The book does not contain replication consistency protocols and the object DBMS transaction section is quite weak. The second edition is definitely a major improvement over the first edition and this book is definitely Number 1 in the distributed databases area.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Good resource for advanced readers interested in theory
30 Nov 1999
By William M. Swartz
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I'm a practicing DB engineer. I bought the book since it seems to be a popular graduate level textbook, and I needed to expand my understanding of distributed, federated, and multi-database systems. The book provides a broad overview of concepts and alternative architectures. There is some detailed theory in the text, which won't be useful to most DB practicioners, but if you prefer diving right into the deep end of new topics, this book is a good place to start. No info in this book on specific products or vendor approaches. I'm still climbing this learning curve, so I can't compare this to other books that are widely available (several dozen right here on Amazon.com.) A related topic, apparently still being researched, is database integration. This book touches on that topic (without calling it that), but so far the best info I've found is in IEEE and SIGMOD journals. I don't have any complaints about readability, perhaps because I bought the book expecting to take plenty of time studying it.
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Critical For Distributed Database Development
28 Feb 2009
By Popa Adrian Marius
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It was critical for me in understanding Distributed Database Concepts also the speed is quite good , I like the algorithms presented here , maybe is good that no commercial database was used and only principles were applied. I didn't care about the OO parts but for Firebird Database development it might help with ideas presented in the book , I wish some revision to be made to this book so maybe I can help applying the principles with some real example to make it Easy to gasp , sometimes maths are hard but if you re-read then all is Logic.I like it more than some other big database books because is clean and is not filled with empty words and this is why is pleasant to fly over the chapters
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