Experiences Acquiring and Distributing a Large Scientific Database

Author

Xiang, Helen X.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Hertfordshire

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

19

Abstract

In recent years volumes of scientific data and of scientific databases have increased tremendously. Distributing a database across multiple sites is one possible solution to the problem of managing growing data. We address some practical aspects of distributing a large scientific database - the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) database. As a preliminary, we also describe how we acquired the SDSS data and set up a mirror site. The architecture of our grid-based distributed database system is presented.

Keywords

distributed databases; scientific information systems; SDSS; Sloan Digital Sky Survey database; grid-based distributed database; scientific data; scientific database; Charge-coupled image sensors; Data processing; Database systems; Extraterrestrial measurements; Image databases; Mirrors; Photometry; Pipelines; Pixel; Telescopes; Distributed database; Grid; Large Scientific Database; SDSS; terabytes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Generation Communication and Networking Symposia, 2008. FGCNS '08. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3430-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3546-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FGCNS.2008.69

Filename

4813512