Design Considerations in Distributed Data Base Management Systems

As the computer industry has grown in experience and application, there is an area which has received much attention; that is, the area of managing, organizing and storing data. Problems of reliability, security and timeliness with data have drawn almost every computer user's attention. Since the late 60's, there has been a growing interest in providing software which separates (at a cost) the manipulation aspect from usual organizational and accounting functions found in a normal program. Such 'housekeeping' chores can require significant efforts on the part of programmers. Further, once such chores are initially done they will have to be redone time and again, since requirements and usage will change. (Author)