Question: 44
(Choose 1 answer)
What is the main difference between document distribution and term distribution?
A. In document distribution, each index server stores a different part of the inverted index, while in term
distribution, each index server stores a copy of the entire document collection
B. In document distribution, the director is responsible for merging the results from the index servers, while in
term distribution, one of the index servers is responsible for processing the query and merging the results from
the other index servers
C. Document distribution is more difficult to implement than term distribution
D. seek time for document distribution is shorter than term distribution with the same number of terms
queried over the same number of index servers
