[...]... e-mail: Mario.Antonioletti@ed.ac.uk S Fiore and G Aloisio (eds.), Grid and Cloud Database Management, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20045-8 1, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 3 4 S Lynden et al and potential applications to highlight how this work can benef t web service-based architectures used in Grid and Cloud computing 1.1 Introduction and Background Standards play a central role in achieving interoperability... OGSADAI DQP and Views Phil Trans Roy Soc A 368, 4133–4145 (2010) Chapter 2 Open Cloud Computing Interface in Data Management- Related Setups Andrew Edmonds, Thijs Metsch, and Alexander Papaspyrou Abstract The Cloud community is a vivid group of people who drive the ideas of Cloud computing into different f elds of Information Technology This demands for standards to ensure interoperability and avoid vendor... facilitate the management and integration of data across the distributed environments presented by Grids and Clouds Acknowledgements The authors thank all those people who have participated in the process of developing and ratifying the DAIS specifica ion documents and OGF for hosting the process References 1 Catlett, C., de Laat, C., Martin, D., Newby, G., Skow, D.: Open Grid Forum Document Process and Requirements... Contents 8 Virtualization and Column-Oriented Database Systems 151 Ilia Petrov, Vyacheslav Polonskyy, and Alejandro Buchmann 9 Scientifi Computation and Data Management Using Microsoft Windows Azure 169 Steven Johnston, Simon Cox, and Kenji Takeda 10 The CloudMiner 193 Andrzej Goscinski,... Han, and Peter Brezany 11 Provenance Support for Data-Intensive Scientifi Workflow 215 Fakhri Alam Khan and Peter Brezany 12 Managing Data-Intensive Workloads in a Cloud 235 R Mian, P Martin, A Brown, and M Zhang Part IV Scientifi Case Studies 13 Managing and Analysing Genomic Data Using HPC and Clouds 261 Bartosz Dobrzelecki, Amrey Krause, Michal Piotrowski, and Neil... Standards for Service-Based Database Access and Integration Steven Lynden, Oscar Corcho, Isao Kojima, Mario Antonioletti, and Carlos Buil-Aranda Abstract The Database Access and Integration Services (DAIS) Working Group, working within the Open Grid Forum (OGF), has developed a set of data access and integration standards for distributed environments These standards provide a set of uniform web service-based... Mishin, Alexei Poyda, and Alexander Novikov 16 Distributed Storage of Large-Scale Multidimensional Electroencephalogram Data Using Hadoop and HBase 331 Haimonti Dutta, Alex Kamil, Manoj Pooleery, Simha Sethumadhavan, and John Demme Index 349 Part I Open Standards and Specification Chapter 1 Open Standards for Service-Based... community-led standards body formed to promote the open standards required for applied distributed environments such as Grids and Clouds The OGF is composed of a number of Working Groups that concentrate on producing documents that standardise particular aspects of distributed environments as OGF recommendations, which are complemented by informational documents that inform the community about interesting and. .. such standards need to satisfy many requirements, use cases, and applications, they need to be extremely f exible and adaptive The Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) family of specificati ns aims to achieve this goal: originally developed for the deployment of infrastructure Clouds, it can also be used in different service and deployment models This article will outline the OCCI specificati ns and. .. evolving: standards are being developed and technologies emerge (like virtualisation) As such, there is a demand for ensuring clean interfaces and protocols which are easy to use and can be used for multiple kinds of service offerings to prevent a vendor lock-in In the context of these developments, the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working group works towards forming such a standard The OCCI .