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Distributed database

In telecommunication, the term distributed database has the following meanings:

1. A database that is not entirely stored at a single physical location, but rather is dispersed over a network of interconnected computers.

2. A database that is under the control of a central database management system in which storage devices are not all attached to a common processor.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C

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