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British National Conference on Databases

BNCOD 2008: Sharing Data, Information and Knowledge pp 181–184Cite as

A Peer-to-Peer Database Server

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 5071))

Abstract

Database systems have traditionally used a Client-Server architecture. If the server becomes overloaded, clients will experience an increase in query response time, and in the worst case the server may be unable to provide any service at all.

In the domain of file-sharing, the problem of server overloading has been successfully addressed by the use of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) techniques in which clients (peers) supply files – or pieces of files – to each other. This paper describes the Wigan P2P Database System, which was designed to investigate how P2P techniques for reducing server load and so increasing system scalability can be applied successfully in a database environment. Peers cache query results and use them to satisfy each other’s queries. Wigan is based on the popular BitTorrent file-sharing protocol.

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  1. The SimJava tool, http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/hase/simjava/

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  1. School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

    John Colquhoun & Paul Watson

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Alex Gray Keith Jeffery Jianhua Shao

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Colquhoun, J., Watson, P. (2008). A Peer-to-Peer Database Server. In: Gray, A., Jeffery, K., Shao, J. (eds) Sharing Data, Information and Knowledge. BNCOD 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5071. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70504-8_17

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