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标题：Searching Shared Content in Communities with the Data Ring
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作者：Serge Abiteboul ; Neoklis Polyzotis
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.