Distributed System in Online Book Store

2012

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DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

(CBDT3103)

Name: ARIS BINTORO BIN SOETIYONO

Matric No: 800402715101001

Course: Bachelor of Information Technology (Network Systems)

OUM Centre: PETALING JAYA

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CONTENT

1. INTRODUCTION

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2. DESIGN ISSUES OR CHARACTERISTICS OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM

OF BTS AGENCY FOR IMPLEMENTATION.

2.1 Transparency

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2.2 Scalability

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2.3 Openness

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2.4 Security

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2.5 Heterogeneity

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3. MODEL OF DISTRIBUTED NETWORK.

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4. REFERENCES

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1. INTRODUCTION

BTS Agency’s nature of business are publishing and distributing books all over the world. Their

customers are thousands of quantity who perform business transaction on daily basis. BTS agency

did not have a proper design of their distributed system and their suggested to implement the

distributed system in the organization.

Before they want to implement the system, they must learn the meaning of distributed system.

Distributed systems can be defined as a collection of interrelated databases, located at dispersed

geographical sites, connected by a computer network. The degree of data, processing and

transaction distribution, will vary from system to system.

There a several advantages to using a distributed database management system over the more

traditional systems:

Data at demand site

Data will disperse to match business requirements.

Because users use only a subset of company data, data access is

Faster data access

much faster.

Because processing occurs at multiple sites, data processing speed

Faster data processing

improves.

New sites can be added to the network without affecting

Growth

operations at other sites.

Because local sites are smaller and closer to customer operations,

Improved communications

communications become easier to manage.

It is much easier and much more cost effective to add workstations

Reduced costs

to a network than to...