Guest Editors' Introduction: Internet-Scale Data Management
Samuel R. Madden, Maarten R. van Steen · IEEE Internet Computing · 2012
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.