Dynamic load balancing middle-ware for heterogenous database partitions case study: MYSQL databases
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2012Author
Ndungu, K. Boniface
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In the recent past we have seen people and organizations appreciate the use of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT), as this happens massive data has been generated, replicated and
stored for future use. These dataset has grown to unimaginable size the I.T experts 10 years ago
couldn’t have predicted. We have seen institutions like bank and telecommunications industry acquire
millions of customers whose detailed information need to be stored in database system and retrieved
and manipulated at will. In the banks for example the customers will want to access their account any
time of the day regardless of whether there is no power or not, or if there are so many customers that
the customer connected to the servers and each have to wait for their turn in the queue.
Due to these demands computer scientist and expert from various industries have put their heads
together to try and find a solution to make sure that as the information dataset continues to grow the
daily operation of any computer system continues to give the same expected output or better. Hence
these experts have seen the need to continually create the best strategies to ensure total availability of
information in an information system. One of these efforts has been noticed in the area of distributed
database management systems which has initiated the need to have mechanisms like load-balancing to
ensure high availability, fail-over, increased response and much more. This has lead to a more efficient
way of making sure that life move smoothly for those people using information and communication
technology services.
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Masters of science in computer sciencePublisher
University of Nairobi School of Computing and Informatics