A Taxonomy of Data Management Models in Distributed and Grid Environments
Farrukh Nadeem · International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science · 2016
The distributed environments vary largely in their architectures, from tightly coupled cluster environment to loosely coupled Grid environment and completely uncoupled peer-to-peer environment, and thus differ in their working environments as well as performance.To meet the specific needs of these environments for data organization, replication, transfer, scheduling etc. the data management systems implement different data management models.In this paper, major data management tasks in distributed environments are identified and a taxonomy of the data management models in these environments is presented.The taxonomy is used to highlight the specific data management requirements of each environment and highlight the strengths and weakness of the implemented data management models.The taxonomy is followed by a survey of different distributed and Grid environments and the data management models they implement.The taxonomy and the survey results are used to identify the issues and challenges of data management for future exploration.