Architecture to Integrating Heterogeneous Databases Using Grid Computing

Databases are normally designed to support a specific application domain, and the globalization process brings new issues to integrate data from more than one database. This paper proposes an architecture to integrating databases, by demonstrating a method for integrating semantically heterogeneous databases with a single tool and grid computing technology, which enables access to different databases in different formats through a single interface, as if they were a single database. Thus, this architecture can carry out queries simultaneously on shared integrated databases in a parallel way.