GENERIC DATA ACCESS AND INTEGRATION SERVICE FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a Generic Data Access and Integration Service GDAIS for various distributed computing environments. The service can be deployed within Peer-to-Peer, Cluster, Grid and Cloud computing environment. Grid service environment has been utilized to develop GDAIS and it provides the generic data access facility to the clients. The clients can manipulate data stored in various data stores in transparent manner. The service supports simplified access to a variety of sources like the files on file system, web services and various databases like XML databases, relation databases, object oriented databases and object relational databases. A uniform API to manipulate data from disparate and heterogeneous data sources is developed. Various operations that can be performed are ‘read’, ‘select’, ‘insert’, ‘update’,’ delete’ and ‘bulk insert’. These APIs are developed as web services.