A distributed database is a database that consists of two or more files located in different sites on the same or different networks. Processing is distributed among multiple database nodes stored in ...

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In a distributed database, the data systems are held in different physical locations but can be accessed by all computers on a system. Processing is also shared among the many nodes—a database ...