OceanStore: an architecture for global-scale persistent storage

  • Authors:
  • John Kubiatowicz;David Bindel;Yan Chen;Steven Czerwinski;Patrick Eaton;Dennis Geels;Ramakrishan Gummadi;Sean Rhea;Hakim Weatherspoon;Westley Weimer;Chris Wells;Ben Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley;University of California, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

OceanStore is a utility infrastructure designed to span the globe and provide continuous access to persistent information. Since this infrastructure is comprised of untrusted servers, data is protected through redundancy and cryptographic techniques. To improve performance, data is allowed to be cached anywhere, anytime. Additionally, monitoring of usage patterns allows adaptation to regional outages and denial of service attacks; monitoring also enhances performance through pro-active movement of data. A prototype implementation is currently under development.