Australian Boomerang, Ltd. wants to design a distributed relational database. The company is…
Australian Boomerang, Ltd. wants to design a
distributed relational database. The company is
headquartered in Perth and has major operations
in Sydney, Melbourne, and Darwin. The database
involved consists of five tables, labeled A, B, C, D,
and E, with the following characteristics:
TableAconsists of 500,000 records and is heavily
used in Perth and Sydney.
Table B consists of 100,000 records and is
frequently required in all four cities.
Table C consists of 800 records and is frequently
required in all four cities.
Table D consists of 75,000 records. Records
1–30,000 are most frequently used in Sydney.
Records 30,001–75,000 are most frequently
used in Melbourne.
Table E consists of 20,000 records and is used
almost exclusively in Perth.
Design a distributed relational database for
Australian Boomerang. Justify your placement,
replication, and partitioning of the tables.