Principles of Distributed Database Systems (Second Edition)

Author: M.T. Ozsu, Patrick Valduriez
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book is highly suitable as a textbook for graduate-level database teaching. It covers the fundamental principles, methods, important algorithms, and practical implementation techniques used in distributed databases. The second edition also includes new content such as: dedicating two chapters to introduce parallel databases and distributed object database management systems. The book has the following features: 1. Comprehensive content, systematically covering the main aspects of distributed databases; 2. Reflects some current research findings, such as data warehousing, the web and databases, reasoning-based technologies, and mobile DBMS; 3. Clear and easy-to-read. The book has been used in the graduate teaching of the Computer Science Department at Tsinghua University for six years and has received positive feedback.