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Distributed Query Processing

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

Synonyms

Distributed query; Distributed query optimization

Definition

Distributed query processing is the procedure of answering queries (which means mainly read operations on large data sets) in a distributed environment where data is managed at multiple sites in a computer network. Query processing involves the transformation of a high-level query (e.g., formulated in SQL) into a query execution plan (consisting of lower-level query operators in some variation of relational algebra) as well as the execution of this plan. The goal of the transformation is to produce a plan which is equivalent to the original query (returning the same result) and efficient, i.e., to minimize resource consumption like total costs or response time.

Historical Background

Motivated by the needs of large companies and organizations that manage their data at different sites, distributed database systems are subject of research since the late 1970s. In these years, three important prototype systems were...

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  1. Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

    Kai-Uwe Sattler

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Sattler, KU. (2009). Distributed Query Processing. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_704

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