Metadata model in grid database and its application

Author

Liu, Liyan ; Li, Hua ; Lin, Zongkai

Author_Institution

Key Lab. for Intelligent Inf. Process., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

24-26 May 2005

Firstpage

362

Abstract

Plenty of structured data existing on the grid need to be managed by databases, but there is little work available on grid-enabled databases. Two problems lie in current research: the first is the deficiency of a uniform management and access method to various kinds of databases; the second is that query efficiency decreases rapidly with the increase of the amount of data records. Metadata plays a critical role in grid databases integration, so a layered metadata model is put forward which comprises information of data storage, data properties and relations between data objects. Through the metadata model, the distributed, heterogeneous data resources can be accessed uniformly and efficiently. At last an example of hospital information database system proves the validity and feasibility of our model.

Keywords

data models; distributed databases; grid computing; medical information systems; meta data; resource allocation; data storage; databases integration; grid-enabled databases; heterogeneous data resources; hospital information database system; metadata model; Computers; Conference management; Database systems; Deductive databases; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Hospitals; Information management; Information processing; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2005. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

1-84600-002-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2005.194198

Filename

1504105