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Heterogeneous distributed database environment

When setting up a distributed database environment, if possibly a diverse database management system is used for some of the nodes that take part in this distributed database, then it is termed as a heterogeneous distributed database environment.

This environment can be represented as in the diagram here:

The following are some of the characteristics of the heterogeneous distributed database environment:

Information is distributed between all the individual database management system's nodes
A versatile database management system can be installed across the individual database systems
Local users, ...

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