What is a distributed SQL engine?

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A distributed SQL query engine is a software tool with an architecture that uses cluster computing (MPP), allowing users to query a variety of data sources, or data from multiple data sources within a single query.

What is SQL distributed system?

Distributed SQL is a single logical relational database deployed on a cluster of servers. A distributed SQL database automatically replicates and distributes data across multiple servers. These databases are strongly consistent and support consistency across availability and geographic zones in the cloud.

How many types of engines are there in SQL?

There are two types of storage engines in MySQL: transactional and non-transactional. For MySQL 5.5 and later, the default storage engine is InnoDB.

What is a distributed query?

Distributed queries allow shared access to data across multiple databases within a network of IBM® Informix® database servers. Different database servers can manage multiple databases, which can be referenced in a single distributed query.

Can SQL DB be distributed?

A distributed SQL database is made up of multiple database instances working together (i.e., nodes in a cluster), with each one storing and querying a subset of the data rather than all of it. Simply add more instances to increase storage capacity and/or query performance.

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