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Peer Data Management System

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Synonyms

Decentralized data integration system; PDMS

Definition

A Peer Data Management System (PDMS) is a triple S = 〈P, S, M〉 where P is a set of autonomous peers, S a set of heterogeneous schemas used by the peers to represent their data, and M a set of schema mappings, each enabling the reformulation of queries between a given pair of schemas.

Key Points

A Peer Data Management System (PDMS) is a distributed data integration system providing transparent access to heterogeneous databases without resorting to a centralized logical schema. Instead of imposing a uniform query interface over a mediated schema, PDMSs let the peers define their own schemas and allow for the reformulation of queries through mappings relating pairs of schemas (see Fig. 1). PDMSs typically exploit the schema mappings transitively in order to retrieve results from the entire network.

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Contrary to the mediated architecture (a), Peer Data Management Systems (b) do not impose any form of centralization but...

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Distributed Inf. Sys Lab., Inst. for Core Computing Science (IIF), EPFL-IC-IIF-LSIR, Boment BC, Station 14, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Karl Aberer

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Cudré-Mauroux, P. (2016). Peer Data Management System. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_1233-2

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