federated database
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federated database
A collection of databases that are treated as one entity and viewed through a single user interface. See EII, virtual database and federated.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
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Federated database systems, for instance, approach the integration of heterogeneous databases by means of schema integration.
Federated database systems in principle support bi-directionality and also protect existing investment, but generic solutions adaptable for health care--in spite of more than two decades of research--have proved elusive.
Even loosely coupled Federated Database Systems depend on a common canonical model into which the underlying data models can be mapped in order to present a uniform view of the data at the federation layer.
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