Information ubiquity has created a large crowd of users (most
notably scientists), who could employ DBMS technology to process and
share their data more effectively. Still, this user base prefers to
keep its data in files that can be easily managed by applications such
as spreadsheets, rather than deal with the complexity and rigidity
of modern database systems.
The data ring project aims to provide non-experts, such as scientists, with the tools to build content sharing communities in a true database fashion: declaratively. The proposed infrastructure enables users to manage and share their data with minimal effort: The user points to the data that should be shared, and the data ring becomes responsible for automatically indexing the data (to make it accessible), replicating it (for availability), and reorganizing its physical storage (for better query performance).
Research in this project is supported in part by a grant from Los Alamos National Laboratories and an IBM Faculty Development Award.
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