Guest Editors' Introduction: Internet-Scale Data Management

General consensus is that data volumes available across the Internet are growing at a tremendous pace. Well-known solutions for data management have reached their scalability limits, requiring new and innovative alternatives. This special issue gives a snapshot of some of those alternatives, with ar...

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Published in:IEEE internet computing 2012-01, Vol.16 (1), p.10-12
Main Authors: Madden, Sam, van Steen, Maarten
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Content management
data explosion
data management
Database systems
Internet
large-scale data
networked data
Special issues and sections
Web and internet services
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Summary:General consensus is that data volumes available across the Internet are growing at a tremendous pace. Well-known solutions for data management have reached their scalability limits, requiring new and innovative alternatives. This special issue gives a snapshot of some of those alternatives, with articles that address relaxed data consistency, data heterogeneity, NoSQL databases, continuous aggregation queries, and handling of large data sets in Web services.
ISSN:1089-7801
1941-0131
DOI:10.1109/MIC.2012.10