EXTENSII ALE BAZELOR DE DATE DISTRIBUITE /
       ALTERNATIVES FOR THE CLASSIC DATABASE DISTRIBUTED
                            SYSTEMS

Asistent dr. Dan-Andrei Sitar-Taut - Universitatea „Babes-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca, Facultatea de
Stiinte Economice si Gestiunea Afacerilor

Abstract:
Today there are many opinions supporting database distributed systems and centralized database
systems and considering them as a guaranteed solution, even if some cases prove this is not the
most efficient approach. We will try to fight against to this preconceived idea trough reveal of
some technologies as federated database systems, which are applicable in some categories of
circumstances. Both, the latter ones and distributed database systems could represent a solid
platform for interfacing technologies such as: data warehouses, data marts, OLAP and OLTP
systems, data mining, web, etc. This paper aims making familiar to few alternatives for the classic
distributed systems, analyzing those technologies having distributed systems upstream placed, and
also the causality inter-relationships that exist between them.

Keywords: database distributed systems, centralized database systems, federated database
systems, interfacing technologies

JEL codes: M15