A method and mechanism for reducing the expense of data transmissions and storage between a first node and a second for a remote-mapped query or a query involving a distributed join operation is disclosed. Data prefetching can be utilized to predictably retrieve information. Data redundancy management can be employed to reduce the expense of transmitting and storing redundant data.

 
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