ON BUILDING A HYPERDISTRIBUTED DATABASE

Sharing data among disparate databases has so far mostly been achieved through some form of ad-hoc schema integration. This approach becomes less tractable as the number of participating database increases. The refore, the complexity of making autonomous heterogeneous databases in teroperate is dependent on adequately addressing the autonomy and hete rogeneity issues. In this paper, we describe a prototype that implemen ts an approach which addresses these issues in the context of large mu ltidatabase systems. In particular, we describe a scheme that builds a Hyperdistributed Database using a two-staged approach. We also descri be how conglomerations of databases are formed, modified, and evolved.