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Distributing a game's player database
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An online quiz game has players in Europe, Asia and North America. All player profiles and scores are kept in one database server in Europe, and players in Asia complain that the game is slow. The company plans to run the database on servers on all three continents.
(a) Distinguish between partitioning and replication in a distributed database. [2]
(b) Evaluate distributing the game's database across the three continents. [4]
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