The introduction of large numbers of PCs and networks into the workplace led to the development and widespread adoption of client-server systems in the 1990s. This development has been significant to the growth of distributed databases. Distributed databases require processing power at each site where data is physically located. Processing ...

Geographic dispersion of organizations is not an entirely new concept. Large firms have connected major regional offices to their centralized databases using dedicated lines for years. The difference now is that geographic dispersion is taken to greater extremes to provide cost savings and improved contact with the firm's customers. Large ...

Prior to the popular acceptance of DDBMSs, corporations normally relied on centralized databases designed to serve very structured information requirements. These centralized databases had some characteristics in common. First, they ran on powerful and expensive hardware that could handle very large portions of a firm's data reliably. Second, they were ...

A distributed database offers an antidote to "putting all your eggs in one basket." The key difference between a centralized and distributed database is where the information is stored. A document management system using a distributed database stores all the necessary document profiling information dispersed throughout the network. The information ...

A document management system that employs a central database stores all document profile information in a single, monolithic database. Typically this is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that resides on a dedicated Server attached to the network. As users of the document management system work with documents across the ...