By Chin-Wan Chung
Communications of the ACM,
January 1990,
Vol. 33 No. 1, Pages 70-80
10.1145/76372.76377
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Diverse database management systems are used in large organizations. The heterogeneous distributed database system (DDS) can provide a flexible intergration of diverse databases for users and applications. This is because it allows for retrieval and update of distributed data under different data systems giving the illusion of accessing a single centralized database system.
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