3.13. A company will deploy a credit sales system that will provide service to ten large population centers.A database will be used to store user information and record credit transactions.The IT department is considering two choices:

a. A centralized database, where a single copy of the data is stored in one datacenter and used from all population centers

b. A replicated database, where one copy of the data is stored at multiple datacenters (one in each population center) and all copies of the data are synchronized Give some criteria for deciding which type of database should be used for this project?