Building a Retail Sysem Based on Distributed Databases Model

Abstract

In recent years, distributed databases have become an important field of processing information, overcoming some limitations of centralized database such as overloading, bottlenecking while accessing, availability/ reliability of low fault tolerance. Our article proposes to build a distributed system (functions and databases) for POS (point of sale) retailers, data will be distributed across different locations but can still be linked together when required. At each location retailers can sell directly on the system (online or offline) so they can administer local databases and execute their local applications (business). Here we deploy the system on the distributed database management system based on Client-Server model. Therefore, aside from local management of data at clients (POS), there is also a server (manager) that stores data, manages and controls the entire system.