Describe a distributed database management system(DDBMS)
Distributed computing involves storage and processing of logically related materials over a dispersed geographical area. This is useful for retrieval speed purposes as well as for disaster recovery and business continuity. Distributed processing is the databases ability to process logical business operation among shared machines while a distributed database stores logically related databases over two or more independent sites. The distributed database is composed of database fragments. A transaction processor TP requests data from an application processor AP or transaction manager, while a data processor is the software component on the local machine that stores and retrieves data.