rafee@rangkom.MY (M Rafee Yusoff) (04/03/89)
I am interested to do my Doctoral research in the area
of Distributed Databases. I would like to start a discus-
sion and collect information on the present state-of-the-art
technology and future directions of Distributed Databases
with regard to research, development and application.
The scope of this subject is probably very large and
specialized not to mention difficult. Fundamental issues
such as integrating existing databases (heterogeneous or
homogeneous), and query optimization for distributed DBMS
are still not very clearly defined.
Software activities in this area need to be speeded-up
to utilize the hardware and network technology advancements.
What could interesting is to identify commercially available
database systems that claim to have Distributed Database
features. It would also be interesting to identify possible
research areas.
For a start, I would like to collect comments, refer-
ences to state-of-the-art books, journals, articles, etc.
If there is sufficent response, I would post a summary for
further discussion.
Thanks in advance.
Rafee
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