oneref date August 2010 A distributed database management system DDBMS is a software system that permits the management of a distributed database and makes the distribution transparent to the users. A distributed database is a collection of multiple, logically interrelated databases distributed over a computer network. Sometimes distributed database system is used to refer jointly to the distributed database and the distributed DBMS. Overview Distributed database management systems is a software for managing databases stored on multiple computers in a network. A distributed database is a set of databases stored on multiple computers that typically appears to applications on a single database. Consequently, an application can simultaneously access and modify the data in several databases in a network. DDBMS is specially developed for heterogeneous database platforms, focusing mainly on heterogeneous database management systems HDBMS . See also Heterogeneous Database System References M. T. zsu and P. Valduriez, Principles of Distributed Database Systems 2nd edition , Prentice Hall , 1999. ISBN 0 13 659707 6. Databases DEFAULTSORT Distributed Database Management System Category Database management systems Category Applications of distributed computing eu Datu base banatuak kudeatzeko sistema tr Da t k veritaban y netim sistemi ... more details
distinguish Hospital OS Infobox software name HOSxP logo screenshot caption collapsible author Chaiyaporn Suratemekul developer released 1999 Start date YYYY MM DD latest release version latest release date latest preview version latest preview date frequently updated programming language operating system platform size language status genre Hospital information system license GNU General Public License website http hosxp.net HOSxP is a hospital information system , including Electronic health record EHR , in use in over 70 hospitals across Thailand . The software aims to ease the healthcare workflow of health centers, for small sanatorium s to central hospital s. Before becoming HOSxP, the software was called KSK HDBMS . Seeking a more friendly name, the development team opted for the name HOSxP , which comes from Hospital and Experience . The name also reflects the software s graphical user interface , which mimic the Theme computing theme of Windows XP , no matter what actually the underlying operating system. Distributed under GNU General Public License GPL , HOSxP is free software . History The development started in 1999. Emerged from a solo project by Chaiyaporn Suratemekul , a pharmacist by training, now main developers of the software are staffs from Bangkok Medical Software Co., Ltd. , a company led by Chaiyaporn. The development infrastructure, including source code repository , is hosted by SourceForge.net . Architecture and technical information HOSxP uses a client server software architecture architecture . For the database server , it is claimed to run on many RDBMS , like MySQL , Microsoft SQL Server , PostgreSQL , and Interbase Firebird database server Firebird . It uses a two tier Client server architecture with server software running on either Linux or Microsoft Windows and client software can run only on Microsoft Windows. It implements Distributed Component Object Model DCOM and uses Multi tier technology based on Borland DataSnap . Borland Delp ... more details
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