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Intelligent Networks • Smart Objects • Design for Humans |
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| Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
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An unusual title for an otherwise very good article on next generation
computing systems architecture...from the DB perspective.
A Call to Arms
Long anticipated, the
arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at
hand.
"In a related
development, people building sensor networks have discovered that if you
view each sensor as a row in a table (where the sensor values make up the
fields in that row), it becomes quite easy to write programs to query the
sensors. What's more, current distributed query technology, when augmented
by a few new algorithms, proves to be quite capable of supporting highly
efficient programs that minimize bandwidth usage and are quite easy to code
and debug. Evidence of this comes in the form of the tiny database systems
that are beginning to appear in smart dust-a development that's sure to
shock and awe anyone who has ever fooled around with
databases.
Self-managing and always-up. Indeed, if every file system,
every disk, every phone, every TV, every camera, and every piece of smart
dust is to have a database inside, then those database systems will need to
be self-managing, self-organizing, and self-healing."
[ACM Queue]
12:10:51 PM
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