distributed database
Definition
Several interconnected data repositories (databases) stored on different hard disks at the same or different locations, but which present a single, seamless view to the user. Internet's domain name system (DNS) is a well known example of a distributed database.
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distributed database is in the Data Management, Communications, & Networks, Information Science & Technology and Internet & World Wide Web subjects.
distributed database appears in the definition of the following term: domain name service (DNS)
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