Database Grid

Database Grid †

Database Grid provides a uniform view for heterogeneous database resources in grid environment. It aims to integrate various scientific databases, including spectrum, geographic, and biological databases.

Database Grid started the project at Grid Technology Research Center of AIST(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Japan. Currently the project is a part of Service-ware Research Group of Information Technology Research Institute(ITRI), AIST.

News & Info in 2008 †

• 2008.11.18-20 NEW! SC2008 Demonstrations and Presentations
• 2008.10.01 NEW! A new version of OGSA-WebDB and a new software OGSA-DQP extension are released.
• 2008.09.29-10.01 Presentations at Grid2008
  • Service-based Data Integration using OGSA-DQP and OGSA-WebDB(Steven Lynden, Said Mirza Pahlevi and Isao Kojima)
  • Poster:Semantic Resource Monitoring and Discovery with Rule Processing based on the Time-series Statistical Data(Said Mirza Pahlevi and Isao Kojima)
• 2008.07 Our DAIS for RDF activity paper will be included in OGF special issue of Concurrency and Computation Journal
• 2008.06.19-20 jDBJ Workshop: Our member Akiyoshi MATONO is awarded as one of "The Best Young Researcher" Award.
• 2008.04.01 Dabase Grid is now a part of newly created "Grid Serviceware Research Group" of ITRI@AIST.
• 2008.04.01 GTRC april fool news (in Japanese) http://www.gtrc.aist.go.jp/aprilfool
• 2008.03.31. AIST GTRC(Grid Technology Research Center) is successfully closed at the end of mission period. All our members will join ITRI(Information Technology Research Institute) also at AIST.
• 2008.03.12-13 Prototype Demonstrations (OGSA-DAI-RDF & S-MDS) @AKIBA. New DAI-RDF based on DAI3.0 and Rule-Processing extension to S-MDS. http://www.ipsj.or.jp/10jigyo/taikai/70kai/wakuwakuIT/index.html
• 2008.03.09-11. Distributed RDF Query processing using RDFCube is presented at DEWS2008 http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/dews2008/
• 2008.01 Poster presentation of our new OGSA-DQP extensions at Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference 2008.

News Archive

Architecture †

Features †

• Integrates Heterogeneous Database Resources: Relational, XML, Web and RDF databases.

• Provides Scalability using Parallel and Distributed Technologies: SOA/OGSAl, MapReduce and OGSA-DQP.
• Adoption of Semantic Web Technology: Ontologies and Rules

Applications †

• GeoSciences
• Life Sciences
• Semantic SOA