Security Challenges of Distributed Databases Systems

A Systematic Review of Related Literature

Abstract

This paper presents a theoretical study on the security challenges of the distributed database system. The paper reflects on the understanding of what are the different security issues and challenges in the past years. The literature review demonstrates the identified solutions to the specific security problems, as well as the lapses of the distributed database system, and examines the state of current research on the topic and points out gaps in the existing literature. The findings of the study revealed that a distributed database system encountered a lot of security issues in the past years, but this technology has been overcome most of the security challenges. However, there are still security issues that still persist in recent years and have yet to be addressed adequately which affect the performance of this technology. These security issues will keep potential researchers as well as distributed database system implementers occupied for a long time.