JOIN OPERATION PROCESSING SYSTEM IN DISTRIBUTED DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A join operation processing system and a method of operating the system is usable in a distributed database management system including multiple local database management systems, computers employing distributed databases stored in the local database management systems, and a communication network for connecting said local database management systems and the computers. The join operation processing system can perform a join operation on a relational database. Each of the computers instructs prior computer to performing the join operation, and the database management system, managing relations associated with the join operation to read definitions so as to define said relations, reads the read definitions to thereby determine a process to process the join operation, and issues a request to the prescribed database management system to perform join operation processing based on the determination. Each database management system transfers a local processing result and a local processing request among the database management systems and performs the join operation processing in a pipe line processing sequence.