Customer Review: This is a book on "Principles of Distributed Database Systems", not a users guide to distributed database systems. As such, it is a very good book. It is thorough and in-depth. Today, it is not up to date. When written, it was not fully up to date as to current dbms products.
Customer Review: Several authors contribute to the book. It addresses many problems in this area. Furthermore, rich annotations on bibliography are diversified over through the book. It's a valuable reference to academic researchers. On the other hand, this text dosen't do much in introducing the basic concepts.... more info
Customer Review: This book is not difficult to understand. However, I find that this book's examples have too many errors. For example, in chapter 8, the examples given have errors. The result of the examples are not what I expected. It makes me feel whether my understanding is correct or not. Moreover, there is no... more info