Unit 3: A3 Databases
Topic 3.4: Alternative databases Questions
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A hospital group has moved to a distributed database running on nodes in three cities. Describe how atomicity manages transactions across those nodes.
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A research laboratory records the home addresses of people who have caught a virus, so it can study where outbreaks spread. Outline why a spatial database is used to store those addresses.
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