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Peer-to-Peer Storage

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Synonyms

Cooperative storage systems; Distributed storage systems; Wide-area storage systems

Definition

Peer-to-peer (P2P) storage is a paradigm to leverage the combined storage capacity of a network of storage devices (peers) contributed typically by autonomous end-users as a common pool of storage space to store and share content, and is designed to provide persistence and availability of the stored content despite unreliability of the individual autonomous peers in a decentralized environment.

Historical Background

For diverse reasons including fault-tolerance, load-balance or response time, or geographic distribution of end users, distributed data stores have been around for a long while. This includes distributed databases, distributed file systems and Usenet servers among others. Usenet servers communicated among each other in a peer-to-peer manner, and replicated content.

While some redundancy is necessary for fault tolerance, replicating all content at all peers is a very...

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Anwitaman Datta

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Distributed Inf. Sys Lab., Inst. for Core Computing Science (IIF), EPFL-IC-IIF-LSIR, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Karl Aberer

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Datta, A. (2018). Peer-to-Peer Storage. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1216

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