期刊名称：Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering
出版年度：2009
卷号：32
期号：02
出版社：IEEE Computer Society
摘要：Information ubiquity has created a large crowd of users (most notably scientists), who could employ
DBMS technology to share and search their data more effectively. Still, this user base prefers to keep its
data in files that can be easily managed by applications such as spreadsheets, rather than deal with the
complexity and rigidity of modern database systems.
In this article, we describe a vision for enabling non-experts, such as scientists, to build content
sharing communities in a true database fashion: declaratively. The proposed infrastructure, called the
data ring, enables users to share and search their data with minimal effort; the user points to the data that
should be shared, and the data ring becomes responsible for automatically indexing the data (to make
it accessible), replicating it (for availability), and reorganizing its physical storage (for better query
performance). We outline the salient features of our proposal, and outline recent technical advancements
in realizing data rings.
