What's the difference b/n a DBMS and a file system. So far from what I have been able to gather a file system 'manages' files (e.g. XFS, NTFS) and a DBMS stores data usng a format/structure (e.g.

A distributed database is a database that consists of two or more files located in different sites on the same or different networks. Processing is distributed among multiple database nodes stored in ...