Define each type of transparency.

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

There are eight types of transparency: access transparency, location transparency, failure
transparency, replication transparency, persistence transparency, migration transparency,
relocation transparency and transaction transparency. Access transparency hides the details
of networking protocols that enable communication between distributed computers. Location
transparency builds on access transparency to hide the location of resources in the distributed
system from those attempting to access them. Failure transparency is the method by
which a distributed system provides fault tolerance; if one or more resources or computers in
the network fails, users of the system will be unaware (except for reduced performance). If a
system supports replication transparency, all access to a group of replicated resources occurs
as if there were one such resource available.Migration and relocation transparency both hide
the movement of components of a distributed system.The former masks the movement of an
object from one location to another in the system, such as movement of a file from one server
to another; the latter masks the relocation of an object from other objects that communicate
with it. Finally, transaction transparency allows a system to achieve consistency.