Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In telecommunication, the term distributed database has the following meanings: 1. A database that is not entirely stored at a single physical location, but rather is dispersed over a network of interconnected computers. 2. A database that is under the control of a central database management system in which storage devices are not all attached to a common processor. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.