Report on the Second International Workshop on Cloud Data Management (CloudDB 2010)

摘要

CloudDB 2010 was the second CIKM-associated workshop addressing the challenges of large database services based on the cloud computing infrastructure. Whilst these emerging services have reduced the cost of data storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude, there is significant complexity involved in ensuring large data service can scale when one needs to ensure consistent and reliable operation under peak loads. Cloud-based environment has the technical requirement to manage data center virtualization, lower cost and boost reliability by consolidating systems on the cloud. The existing research works in the area of cloud-based data management are still somehow immature and significant room for progress exists. The works presented in the workshop mainly focused on adapting existing Grid and Map/Reduce techniques to the cloud environment. The participants agreed that many open challenges still remain such as cloud data security and the efficiency of query processing in the cloud.