Sunday, May 17, 2009

CS 2

File Structures

Index file--Uses Index concepts

Hashed files represent a file storage system that provides direct access only, without the 
overhead encountered with index maintenance.

Distributed database-- a database spread over several machines in a network.

The Commit Protocol

The point at which all the steps in a transaction have been recoreded in a log is called commit
point.

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