Distributed and Parallel Databases gratefully acknowledges the editorial work of the following scholars:

  • Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University

  • Samee Khan, North Dakota State University

  • Rodrigo Calheiros, University of Melbourne

  • Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne

  • Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne

on this special section “Scalable Data Management.”

The two papers in this section include:

  • “Efficient integrity verification of replicated data in cloud using homomorphic encryption” by Raghul Mukundan, Sanjay Madria, Mark Linderman and

  • “OATS: online aggregation with two-level sharing strategy in cloud” by Yuxiang Wang, Junzhou Luo, Aibo Song, Fang Dong