Migrating a (large) science database to the cloud

HPDC 2010 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 430-434

  Thakar, Ani ^a   Szalay, Alex ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud; Data in the cloud. cloud computing; Databases; Scientific databases

Indexed keywords

AMAZON EC2; CLOUD SERVICES; DATA IN THE CLOUD. CLOUD COMPUTING; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; DATABASES; LARGE DATABASE; MICROSOFT; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PUBLIC DATASET; SCIENTIFIC DATABASE; SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY; SPATIAL INDEXING; SQL SERVERS; USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650033918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1851476.1851539     Document Type: Conference Paper

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