DBGlobe: a service-oriented P2P system for global computing

  • Authors:
  • Evaggelia Pitoura;Serge Abiteboul;Dieter Pfoser;George Samaras;Michalis Vazirgiannis

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece;INRIA-Futurs and Xyleme, France;CTI, Athens, Greece;University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus;Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our goal is to develop a data management system for modeling, indexing and querying data hosted by such massively distributed, autonomous and possibly mobile peers. We employ a service-oriented approach, in that data are encapsulated in services. Direct querying of data is also supported by an XML-based query language. In this paper, we present our research results along the following topics: (a) infrastructure support, including mobile peers and the creation of context-dependent communities, (b) metadata management for services and peers, including location-dependent data, (c) filters for efficiently routing path queries on hierarchical data, and (d) querying using the AXML language that incorporates service calls inside XML documents.