See The Definitions of DDBMS 1.

) Autonomy: Refers to the distribution of control (not of data) and indicates the degree to which individual DBMSs can operate independently. 2) Tight integration: A single-image of the entire database is available to any user who wants to share the information (which may reside in multiple DBs); realized such that one data manager is in control of the processing of each user request. 3) Total isolation: The individual systems are stand-alone DBMSs, which know neither of the existence of other DBMSs nor how to comunicate with them; there is no global control. 4) Access Frequency: A data items access number of times in perticular query is called access frequency of that query on perticular database. 5) Dirty Read : It refers to data items whose values have been modified by a transaction that has not yet committed. 6) Phantom Problem: The Phantom Problem can occur in database management systems in scenarios involving concurrency, and can cause unexpected and faulty behavior. The phantom problem is explained as in course of a transaction, two identical queries are executed, and the collection of rows returned by the second query is different from the first. 7) Transaction: A tranaction is made up of sequence of read and writes operations on database together with computation steps, which takes a database from one consistent state to another consistent state. 8) Distributed Processing : Distributed processing is a technique of distributing the information over a network. 9) Distributed Database. A logically interrelated collection of shared data (and a description of this data), physically distributed over a computer network. 10) Distributed DBMS. Software system that permits the management of the distributed database and makes the distribution transparent to users.