Distributed Database Management System

Lecture 10

Major DDBS Architectures

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Client-Server Architecture
Basic idea is to distribute functionality Gives two level architecture The term used in different meanings; generally C and S refer to processes, may be running at the same machines
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As you can see in the figure Server performs most of the data Management;
Query Processing

Transaction and Storage Management

Client, mainly has

application and user interface a client module of DBMS Data and lock management cached their sometimes

OS and Communication s/w running at both

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 Client passes user queries to server without trying to understand or optimize them One Server Multiple Clients Multiple Servers
One Server at a time Multiple Servers (transparently) at a time

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Peer-to-Peer Distributed Systems

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ES1

ES2 GCS

ES1

ESn

LCS1
LIS1

LCS2

LCSn

LIS2

LISn

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 Physical data organization at each site defining Local Internal Schemas On top of that, Local Conceptual Schema Then the overall view is depicted by Global conceptual schema that supports the External schemas
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Transparencies Supported Extension of ANSI/SPARC Model Data Independence supported Local Data Dictionary and global exist Both support local and global mappings
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Interpreting user commands

and formats results

Checks if user query can be processed Optimized execution strategy Global queries to local ones Coordinates distribution execution of user requests

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Chooses best access path to any data item Makes sure the consistency of local data even in case of failure Physically accesses the data as per the commands generated by query optimizer. Interacts with the OS
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Major DDBS Architectures-III

A Multidatabase System
Provides access from multiple, autonomous heterogeneous, and distributed databases. Two Major architectures:
Global Schema Architecture Federated Schema Architecture

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Global Schema Architecture

G External Schema G External Schema

Global Schema Schema Integration

L External Schema

Component Schema

Component Schema

L External Schema

Schema Translation

Local Schema

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