Review of fragmentation and replication in Distributed Database

Abstract

This paper reviews the basic concepts of Distributed database in distributed database system. Distributed database is the collection of the databases stored at different sites in the interrelated manner over the network. A distributed database is the combination of Distributed database and database management system. This paper provides differentiation between the architecture of central Database and distributed database and various aspects like fragmentation, replication and various problems that can be faced into distributed database system. Data Fragmentation is another way to store data in distributed manner.