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Distributed Databases Scenario: you are hired as a consultant, specialising in distributed databases! For each of the following scenarios, explain which distribution strategy is best to overcome the problem. 1: For a Sharepoint site, you have users located in both Melbourne and Singapore. Both need full access to all of the data at maximum speed. The data, however, gets updated very rarely (say once every 3 months). 2: For the Salesforce Customer Relationship Management system, you have users located in both Asia and Europe. However, generally, SOME rows in the tables are used more regularly in Asia (e.g., salespeople in China look up more records for customers in China), and some are used more regularly in Europe (likewise for France). Not many analytical queries involving data from other regions are required, and in general, updates are happening to tables very rapidly. 3: For the Australian Football League information website, its users are based primarily in the Australian region (nearby the DB in Sydney), and in general the performance of the DB is currently acceptable and data is being backed up already offsite safely. If the service goes down for hours to days, it’s not ideal but not mission critical to the business. 4: For the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) database, its users are mainly people who love art in the Australian region. Therefore, speed is essential for these users, to access basic information about NGV's art collection and a preview image of less than 1MB. However, the NGV also stores very high-resolution image data (up to 1GB) in Silicon Valley (USA) due to cheaper cost of storage there; these large image files are accessed mostly by arts scholars, at most twice a month.

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A.Horizontal Partitioning
B.Diagonal Partitioning
C.Vortigonal Partitioning
D.Horticultural Partitioning
E.Replication
F.Vertical Partitioning
G.None (centralised)
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Question restatement and options: You’re evaluating distribution strategies for four scenarios: 1) A Sharepoint site with users in Melbourne and Singapore, both needing full data access at maximum speed, with data updates about every 3 months. 2) Salesforce with users in Asia and Europe; some rows are accessed more in Asia, some more in Europe, updates are rapid, few cross-region analytical queries. 3) Australian Football League website; users mainly in Australia (Sydney region); performance is acceptable, backups offsite; service outages of hours to days are not mission-critical. 4) National Gallery of Victoria database; mainly Australian users need speed for basic info and previews (<1MB), but very large image data (up to 1GB) stored in Silicon Valley and accessed mainly by arts scholars, at most twice a month. Answer options: ["Horizontal Partitioning", "Diagonal Partitioning", "Vortigonal Partitioning", "Horticultural Partitioning", "Replication", "Vertical Partitioning", "None (centralised)"] Now let’s evaluate each distribution strategy option in light of the four scenarios, explaining why it would or would not be appropriate. Option: Horizontal Partitioning - Scenario 1: Horizontal partitioning would split the data by rows across sites (e.g., by region). Since both Melbourne and Singapore require full access to all data at high speed and updates are infrequent, horizontal partitioning could complicate queries that need data from both sites and may not provide the desired uniform fast access. This scenario typically favors replication for read-heavy, cross-site access rather than partitioning by rows that could force cross-partition joins. - Scenario 2: Given some rows are more frequently accessed in Asia and others in Europe, horizontal partitioning by region could improve local access for regional hot data, but updates are rapid and cross-region usage is present only modestly. Horizontal partitioning could he......Login to view full explanation

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