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Structured Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems

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Peer data management; Peer database management; P2P database

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A peer database management system is a peer-to-peer (P2P) system that manages structured data. Each node in such a system maintains data which conforms to user- or application-defined structures and can be accessed and retrieved efficiently. Examples of data structures are relations as set of tuples and hierarchical or tree-organized data such as XML data and documents. In contrast to unstructured data (e.g., text and binary objects) structured data can be retrieved by specifying logical conditions and further processed by operations such as set operations, aggregations and joins.

Historical Background

One of the origins of coordinator-free distributed data management were scalable distributed data structures (SDDS). One of these approaches called LH* [7] is an extension of linear hashing to distributed nodes, and supports key search as well as parallel operations like hash joins and scans.

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  1. Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

    Kai-Uwe Sattler

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Sattler, KU. (2009). Structured Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1219

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