Design of a Distributed Data Base Management System for Use in the AFIT Digital Engineering Laboratory.
Abstract
Distributed data base management system (DDBMS) was designed with the goal of providing the AFIT School of Engineering a research tool. The objective was to use state-of-the-art knowledge in a design that would provide an experimental testbed to further advance DDBMS knowledge. Toward this goal, an extensive investigation was made into distributed data base systems. Numerous alternatives wre presented in the areas of configurations and architecture, data allocation, directory management, query processing, concurrency control, reliability, integrity and security. This background discussion includes advantages and disadvantages of the alternatives. A top level system design was presented which includes replication of data, a universal data model and query language, a centralized and extended centralized directory system and the majority voting concurrency control algorithm. Due to the complexity and size of the development effort, a detailed design of only the directory system was made in this research effort. Follow-on development efforts over the next few years will be required to complete this research project. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA124821
Entities
People
- Eric F. Imker
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology