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Data Federation

Data federation is an approach to integrating data from heterogeneous, autonomous, distributed databases without requiring centralized storage. Formalized by Sheth and Larson in 1990, federated systems provide a unified interface to query multiple independent sources while preserving their autonomy and existing schemas.

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  1. Sheth, A. P., & Larson, P. A. (1990). Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases. ACM Computing Surveys, 22(3), 183-236. DOI: 10.1145/96602.96604
  2. Özsu, M. T., & Valduriez, P. (2011). Distributed and parallel database systems. Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 1657-1668. DOI: 10.1145/1989323.1989454
  3. Garcia-Molina, H., Ullman, J. D., & Widom, J. (2009). Database Systems: The Complete Book (2nd ed.). Pearson Education. link

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