Design of a Horizontal Data Fragmentation, Allocation and Replication Method in the Cloud

Abstract

At present, the demand for information in distributed database systems is large and growing day by day. While this is happening, new challenges arise to improve the performance of the databases. Data fragmentation and replication methods have a leading role in distributed systems over the cloud, which is why this paper presents the design of a horizontal fragmentation, allocation and replication method in the cloud. This research proposes an algorithm for solving the problem of overlapping horizontal fragments in a data fragmentation and replication method in the cloud. The design of a Web application using the aforementioned method is also presented, this allows the fragmentation, assignment and replication scheme proposed by the method to be directly applied on a distributed database.