The Piazza Peer Data Management Project

Igor Tatarinov, University of Washington
Zachary G. Ives, University of Pennsylvania
Jayant Madhavan, University of Washington
Alon Halevy, University of Washington
Dan Suciu, University of Washington
Nilesh Dalvi, University of Washington
Xin (Luna) Dong, University of Washington
Yana Kadiyska, University of Washington
Gerome Miklau, University of Washington
Peter Mork, University of Washington

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Publisher URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/945721.945732

Abstract

A major problem in today's information-driven world is that sharing heterogeneous, semantically rich data is incredibly difficult. Piazza is a peer data management system that enables sharing heterogeneous data in a distributed and scalable way. Piazza assumes the participants to be interested in sharing data, and willing to define pairwise mappings between their schemas. Then, users formulate queries over their preferred schema, and a query answering system expands recursively any mappings relevant to the query, retrieving data from other peers. In this paper, we provide a brief overview of the Piazza project including our work on developing mapping languages and query reformulation algorithms, assisting the users in defining mappings, indexing, and enforcing access control over shared data.