A Peer-to-Peer Database Management System

Peer-to-Peer Database Management Systems (PDBMS) are still in the beginning of their evolution. They rise up p2p technology to exploit the power of available distributed database management technologies. The proposed PDBMS will be completely autonomous and any notions of centralization as central server or creating a cost-based global schema will be absent. In this paper a number of potential research issues in the overlap between database and p2p systems is identified, and a vision for building a PDBMS is presented. The PDBMS is envisioned as a system that will be able to manage effectively at runtime semantic interdependences among databases in a decentralized, distributed and collaborative manner. The main focus of the proposed PhD work is the research of adaptive techniques for development of a database management system compatible with the p2p paradigm.