Zusammenfassung der Ressource
4f- Distributed
Databases
Security
- Interception of Data
- X- Fragmented and centralised databases have higher risk
of interception as a lot more data is moving between sites
- Need high quality encryption.
- O- Replicate databases only need to send small
part of the database to be updated. It is more
difficult to intercept the entire database
- Physical Access to Data
- X- Any place where data is stored need
a full security system
- X- Costs increased for partitioned
(fragmented) and replicated databases
- O- In centralised databases only the central
location needs high security as local sites do
not store valuable information
- Data Consistency
and Integrity
- Centralised
- O- All data is stored and
updated in one place
- O- Only data changes at local sites is
updating indexes with is straight-forward.
- Vertically Fragmented
- O- Each non-key field is stored and
updated in one place
- X- Need to make sure changes in primary
key field are done at all sites
- Horizontally Fragmented
- O- Each record is stored and
updated in one place
- X- Need to make sure change in primary
key does match an existing primary key.
- Replicated Databases
- Changes made to the data are sent to each
database rather than the new data it's self.
- E.g. is £450 is updated to £350inone location, -£100 is
sent out to all databases for that cell.
- X- If Distributed Database Management System
(DDMS) is not set up properly certain updates to
data will be lost.
- Data must be accurate and up-to-date. storing
data at different locations may lead to problems
with this as data changed at one site must also
be changed in all the others.