Distributed Database Management Systems and the Data Grid

Author

Stockinger, Heinz

Author_Institution

Institute for Computer Science and Business Informatics, University of Vienna, Austria

fYear

2001

fDate

17-20 April 2001

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Currently, Grid research as well as distributed database research deals with data replication but both tackle the problem from different points of view. The aim of this paper is to outline both approaches and try to find commonalities between the two worlds in order to have a most efficient Data Grid that manages data stored in objectoriented databases. Our target object-oriented database management system is Objectivity/DB which is currently the database of choice in some existing High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments as well as in next generation experiments at CERN. The characteristics of Data Grids are described, especially within the High Energy Physics community, and needs for Data Grids are defined. The Globus toolkit is the Grid middle-ware on which we base our discussions on Grid research.

Keywords

Database systems; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Grid computing; Large Hadron Collider; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Physics; Spatial databases; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, 2001. MSS '01. Eighteenth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

ISSN

2160-195X

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0849-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSS.2001.10003

Filename

4022179