Great-Mart is a company with 100 stores. Each store is huge and sells tens of thousands of items. All the cash registers in each store are linked to a centralized database. The goal of this actvity is that your team creating this document to convince management to change the database to a distributed database from a centralized database. This is a distributed database activity. The purpose of this activity is to explain, analyze and develop a distributed database for the Great-Mart superstore chain. Here are the sections of this activity:
1. Explain the differences between a centralized database and a distributed database.
2. Explain the disadvantages of the current centralized database.
3. Explain the advantages that would occur once we replace it with a distributed database.
4. Explain in detail the costs with a distributed DB. Are they higher, lower or the same as we currently have with the centralized database?
5. Describe in detail the hardware, software and networks required to make this work.
6. Develop a plan to switch from the centralized database to a distributed database while keeping the company running 100% of the time.
7. Develop a test plan. Explain it thoroughly.
Summarize in a fair amount of detail the entire project. In other words, the 7 above sections need to be put into the summary.