Friday, May 1, 2020

Distributed Database Question Bank with Answers 05


Question:

When and why is fragmentation favorable in a distributed database?


Answer:
Fragmentation will speed up data access and updates when a query or an update only affects a single fragment. Queries and updates to several fragments can be parallelized.
Fragmentation is favorable when a database table is geographically distributed on some key. Local updates and all kinds of searches will be speeded up. A disadvantage is that global updates require synchronization (2-phase commit) to guarantee atomicity. Furthermore, if the connections are unreliable the availability for global data access is low.


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