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Criteria to Compare Cloud Computing with Current Database Technology

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Software Process and Product Measurement (Mensura 2008, MetriKon 2008, IWSM 2008)

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After Google published their first paper on their software infrastruc-ture in October 2003, the open-source community quickly began working on similar free solutions. Yahoo! is now able to process terabytes of data daily using Hadoop, which is a scalable distributed file system and an open-source implementation of Google’s MapReduce. HBase, a distributed database that uses Hadoop, enables the reliable storage of structured data, just like Google’s Bigtable which powers applications like Google Maps and Google Analytics, to name only two. Many companies are tempted to use these technologies, but it is currently difficult to compare today’s systems with systems built on top of HBase. This paper presents this new technology and, a list of proposed comparison elements to existing database technology as well as proposed comparison assessment criteria.

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  1. École de Technologie Supérieure, 1100 rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Jean-Daniel Cryans, Alain April & Alain Abran

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  1. Institute for Distributed Systems, University of Magdeburg, P.O. Box 4120, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Reiner R. Dumke

  2. Fakultät für Informatik, Institut für Verteilte Systeme, AG Softwaretechnik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    René Braungarten

  3. Büren & Partner Software-Design GbR, Nürnberg, Germany

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  4. Département de génie logiciel et des TI, École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, H3C 1K3, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Alain Abran

  5. University of Alcalá, Autovia A-2 km 33.6, 28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego

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Cryans, JD., April, A., Abran, A. (2008). Criteria to Compare Cloud Computing with Current Database Technology. In: Dumke, R.R., Braungarten, R., Büren, G., Abran, A., Cuadrado-Gallego, J.J. (eds) Software Process and Product Measurement. Mensura MetriKon IWSM 2008 2008 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89403-2_11

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