Towards the Interoperability of Web, Database, and Mass Storage Technologies for Petabyte Archives
Reagan Moore, Richard J. Marciano, Michael Wan, Tom Sherwin, Richard Frost · 1996
At the San Diego Supercomputer Center, a Massive Data Analysis System (MDAS) is being developed to support data-intensive applications that manipulate terabyte-sized data sets. The objective is to support scientific application access to data whether it is located at a Web site, stored as an object in a database, and/or stored in an archival storage system. We are developing a suite of demonstration programs which illustrate how Web, database (DBMS), and archival storage (Mass Storage) technologies can be integrated. An Application Presentation Interface is being designed that integrates data access to all of these sources. We have developed a data movement interface between the Illustra object-relational database and the NSL UniTree archival storage system running in production mode at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. With this interface, an Illustra client can transparently access data on UniTree under the control of the Illustra DBMS server. The current implementation is based on...