Service-Based Distributed Querying on the Grid

Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application development in e-business and e-science. The emergence of a service-oriented view of hardware and software resources raises the question as to how database management systems and technologies can best be deployed or adapted for use in such an environment. This paper explores one aspect of service-based computing and data management, viz., how to integrate query processing technology with a service-based Grid. The paper describes in detail the design and implementation of a service-based distributed query processor for the Grid. The query processor is service-based in two orthogonal senses: firstly, it supports querying over data storage and analysis resources that are made available as services, and, secondly, its internal architecture factors out as services the functionalities related to the construction of distrib...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICSOC
• Authors: M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Paton, Paul Watson, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Anastasios Gounaris, Jim Smith
• Keywords: ICSOC 2003, Open Grid Services Architecture, Query Processor, Service-based Distributed Query