[工程科技]AUnifiedPeer-to-PeerDatabaseFrameworkanditsApplicationforScalableServiceDiscover.pdfVIP

A Unified Peer-to-Peer Database Framework and its Application for Scalable Service Discovery Wolfgang Hoschek CERN IT Division European Organization for Nuclear Research 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Abstract In a large distributed system spanning many administrative domains such as a Data- Grid, it is often desirable to maintain and query dynamic and timely information about active participants such as services, resources and user communities. However, in such a database system, the set of information tuples in the universe is partitioned over one or more distributed nodes, for reasons including autonomy, scalability, availability, perfor- mance and security. It is not obvious how to enable powerful discovery query support and collective collaborative functionality that operate on the distributed system as a whole, rather than on a given part of it. Further, it is not obvious how to allow for search results that are fresh, allowing dynamic content. It appears that a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) database network may be well suited to support dynamic distributed database search, for example for service discovery. In this paper, we take the first steps towards unifying the fields of database management systems and P2P computing, which so far have received considerable, but separate, attention. We extend database concepts and practice to cover P2P search. Similarly, we extend P2P concepts and practice to support powerful general- purpose query languages such as XQuery and SQL. As a result, we devise the Unified Peer-to-Peer