Practical Issues with Commercial use of Federated Databases

Summary: Practical issues in deploying commercial federated databases across heterogeneous enterprise data sources. Examines vendor/version/architecture diversity and practical tradeoffs for rapid, cost-effective cross-database access, exemplified by IBM's DataJoiner. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8568
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
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Overall Rank: 14,234 | 2.35%
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1. Jim Kleewein (IBM)

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@article{kleewein_vldb96,
        title = {{Practical Issues with Commercial use of Federated Databases}},
        author = {Kleewein, Jim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '96},
        pages = {580},
        year = {1996}
}

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