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Mobile Database

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A mobile database is a database that resides on a mobile device such as a PDA, a smart phone, or a laptop. Such devices are often limited in resources such as memory, computing power, and battery power.

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Due to device limitations, a mobile database is often much smaller than its counterpart residing on servers and mainframes. A mobile database is managed by a Database Management System (DBMS). Again, due to resource constraints, such a system often has limited functionality compared to a full blown database management system. For example, mobile databases are single user systems, and therefore a concurrency control mechanism is not required. Other DBMS components such as query processing and recovery may also be limited.

Queries to the mobile database are usually posed by the user of the mobile device. Updates of the database may originate from the user, or from a central server, or directly from other mobile devices. Updates from the server are communicated...

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  1. Cao H, Wolfson O, Xu B, Yin H. MOBI-DIC: MOBIle DIscovery of loCal Resources in Peer-to-Peer Wireless Network. Bull Comput Soc Tech Comm Data Eng. 2005;28(3):11–18. (Special Issue on Database Issues for Location Data Management).

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  1. Mobile Information Systems Center (MOBIS), The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Ouri Wolfson

  2. Department of CS, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Ouri Wolfson

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Mobile Information Systems Center (MOBIS), The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Ouri Wolfson

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Wolfson, O. (2018). Mobile Database. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1362

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