Databases Unplugged Challenges in Ubiquitous Data Management.pptVIP

1/28/99 Challenges in Ubiquitous Data Management Michael Franklin UC Berkeley August 2000 Ubiquitous Computing “In ten years, billions of people will be using the Web, but a trillion gizmos will also be connected to the Web.” Asilomar Rep. on DB Research, Dec. 1998 You’ve heard it before… Smartphones, PDAs, Smartcards, badges, wearables, lightswitches, toasters, … Worldwide sales of Internet-enabled appliances projected to grow from 5.9M units in 1998 to 55.7M units in 2002. IDC via HQ report Ubiquitous Computers Ubiquitous Connectivity Tremendous improvements in Internet backbone bandwidth and reductions in diameter. Broadband connectivity to the home and office (i.e. the “last mile”) is solved. Wireless technologies are enabling anytime-anywhere connectivity. Ubiquitous Data Access But, ubiquitous computing and connectivity aren’t worth much without ubiquitous data access. “Fundamentally, the ability to access all information from anywhere and have ONE unified and synchronized information repository is critical to making appliances useful.” Hambrecht and Quist, iWord , 3/99 Ubiquitous data access will put existing data management techniques to the test, in all aspects – searching, location, reliability, consistency, … Ubiquitous Data: Past Accomplishments Database Systems Relational Model and extensions Data Independence (physical and logical) Declarative query processing and cost-based opt. Storage structures/distribution/parallelism/… Transactions – a comprehensive model for concurrency and fault tolerance. Information Retrieval More natural query interfaces User interaction/feedback is designed in Tolerance of ambiguity due to natural language and unstructured data. Ubiquitous Data – State of the Art Everyone uses a database system and/or search engine every day Although they may not realize it! (t