A distributed database management (DDBMS) system
is defined as the software system that permits the management of distributed
database and makes the distribution transparent to the user.
A distributed database management system
is the software that manage the distribute database and provide an access
mechanism that makes this distribution transparent to the user.
A distributes database system is not only
the collection of files that can individually stored at the different nodes of
network.
To form a
DDBMS file should not be logically related but there should be a structure
among the files and access should be via common interface.