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Grid Database Design investigates the origin, background, and components of this new computing model. This book presents new concepts and analyzes pre-existing ideas in the context of Grid, educating organizations as to how Grid can increase their computing power and strengthen their operations. Divided into three sections, the volume begins by laying the groundwork in the field, defining the concepts that led to the model’s emergence. The second section explains what is entailed in building a Grid, focusing on security, hardware, and the forces driving growth. The final section explores details of databases in a Grid environment, illustrating how the Grid environment will shape database evolution. Grid D… More >>
Grid Database Design
IBM and others have been strongly pushing the concept of Grid computing. (Sometimes known variously as utility computing.) And IBM Press has come out with several books related to this topic. Whereas Wells gives you an independent appraisal of the concept, as applied to running a database.
If you hope that Grid computing takes off, this book is a good sign. Because one of the main commercial applications will surely be for running large databases. So Wells describes what is involved in distributing such a database across different nodes of the Grid. Naturally, issues like security of the communications between the nodes arises. Especially if the nodes are not in the same operations centre. You have to consider if it suffices to be able to ensure that a message is unchanged. Or do you need a stronger measure of encrypting that message?
Anyway, the book delves into these and other issues of database management. The brevity of the book suggests that it is still early days for deploying databases on a grid. Many of the topics may well grow significantly in complexity if this deployment becomes common. Rating: 4 / 5