Principles of Distributed Database Systems

By Patrick Valduriez, M. Tamer Ozsu, Tamer M. Ozsu, et al.

Book Overview

Introduces and explains the theory, algorithms, and methods that underlie distributed DBMS, emphasizing the principles that guide the design of such systems more than their use. Useful as a text for a one- or two-semester graduate-level course. The bibliography is extensive. Annotation copyright Boo

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136916430
• ISBN13: 9780136916437
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 7.5" x 1.3"

Customer Reviews

Critical For Distributed Database Development

It was critical for me in understanding Distributed Database Concepts also the speed is quite good , I like the algorithms presented here , maybe is good that no commercial database was used and only principles were applied. I didn't care about the OO parts but for Firebird Database development it might help with ideas presented in the book , I wish some revision to be made to this book so maybe I can help applying the principles with some real example to make it Easy to gasp , sometimes maths are hard but if you re-read then all is Logic.I like it more than some other big database books because is clean and is not filled with empty words and this is why is pleasant to fly over the chapters

Right (almost) on target

This is a book on "Principles of Distributed Database Systems", not a users guide to distributed database systems. As such, it is a very good book. It is thorough and in-depth. Today, it is not up to date. When written, it was not fully up to date as to current dbms products.

Good DDBS book, but needs updating

This book was chosen as the main text for a distributed database systems graduate Computer Science course I recently took. For a CS course on the subject, it is an obvious pick since not many related texts exist on the market. The text is good, but needs updating since it was published in 1999. Research papers from IEEE and ACM were relied on as supplementary reading, since research in DDBS continues, and much has been written in the last four years.

Very well written and it contains all important algorithms

This books is a must for someone who is not familiar with distributed databases (both for graduate students and practitioners). It will quickly bring you up to speed. It contains enough depth with respect to the algorithms to give the reader a good grasp of the concepts. However, if the reader wants to implement the concepts then he needs to have systems experience. The book does not contain enough implementation details with respect to real systems. In the next edition, for each of the chapters the authors should talk about the algorithms used by real commercial products (such as Oracle, Informix and DB2). The parallel database chapter and the object databases chapter are both for the most part excellent. The book does not contain replication consistency protocols and the object DBMS transaction section is quite weak. The second edition is definitely a major improvement over the first edition and this book is definitely Number 1 in the distributed databases area.