The use of distributed databases in e-learning systems
Iacob Nicoleta Magdalena · Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences · 2011
E-learning: The modern technologies in education and research aims to build a society based on knowledge. In this paper we will describe the advantages of e-learning education and the importance of data allocation in the process of designing a distributed database system. In addition, we are going to analyze the available strategies for optimizing the query execution in a distributed environment, in order to obtain the smallest system response time. The purpose of this paper is to present the advantages offered by the use of distributed databases in the education field by universities with geographically distributed locations.