Abstract
The Database Access and Integration Services (DAIS) Working Group, working within the Open Grid Forum (OGF), has developed a set of data access and integration standards for distributed environments. These standards provide a set of uniform web service-based interfaces for data access. A core specification, WS-DAI, exposes and, in part, manages data resources exposed by DAIS-based services. The WS-DAI document defines a core set of access patterns, messages and properties that form a collection of generic high-level data access interfaces. WS-DAI is then extended by other specifications that specialize access for specific types of data. For example, WS-DAIR extends the WS-DAI specification with interfaces targeting relational data. Similar extensions exist for RDF and XML data. This chapter presents an overview of the specifications, the motivation for defining them and their relationships with other OGF and non-OGF standards. Current implementations of the specifications are described in addition to some existing and potential applications to highlight how this work can benefit web service-based architectures used in Grid and Cloud computing.The Database Access and Integration Services (DAIS) Working Group, working within the Open Grid Forum (OGF), has developed a set of data access and integration standards for distributed environments. These standards provide a set of uniform web service-based interfaces for data access. A core specification, WS-DAI, exposes and, in part, manages data resources exposed by DAIS-based services. The WS-DAI document defines a core set of access patterns, messages and properties that form a collection of generic high-level data access interfaces. WS-DAI is then extended by other specifications that specialize access for specific types of data. For example, WS-DAIR extends the WS-DAI specification with interfaces targeting relational data. Similar extensions exist for RDF and XML data. This chapter presents an overview of the specifications, the motivation for defining them and their relationships with other OGF and non-OGF standards. Current implementations of the specifications are described in addition to some existing and potential applications to highlight how this work can benefit web service-based architectures used in Grid and Cloud computing.
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http://amga.web.cern.ch/amga/.
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http://ogsadai.org.uk.
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http://ogsa-dai.sourceforge.net/.
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http://dbgrid.org.
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A brief analysis of the performance of the AMGA WS-DAIR implementation and some comparisons with the OGSA-DAI implementation can be found under “Design and Implementation of WS-DAIR for AMGA” available at http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2009/program.htm.
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EU FP7 ICT 215024 www.admire-project.eu.
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Lynden, S., Corcho, O., Kojima, I., Antonioletti, M., Buil-Aranda, C. (2011). Open Standards for Service-Based Database Access and Integration. In: Fiore, S., Aloisio, G. (eds) Grid and Cloud Database Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20045-8_1
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