Grid and Cloud Database Management

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fiore, Sandro (Editor), Aloisio, Giovanni (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Earth sciences.; Computer communication systems.; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Bioinformatics.; Computational biology.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; Earth Sciences, general.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.; Computer Communication Networks.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

Since the 1990s Grid Computing has emerged as a paradigm for accessing and managing distributed, heterogeneous and geographically spread resources, promising that we will be able to access computer power as easily as we can access the electric power grid. Later on, Cloud Computing brought the promis...