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Achieving Scalability with Schema-Less Databases

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Advances in Data Management

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Large enterprises continue to struggle with information and critical decision-making data being widely distributed, stored in a number of proprietary and heterogeneous formats, and remaining inaccessible for mining of critical information that spans the collected knowledge of the organization. NETMARK is an easy to use, scalable system for storing, decomposing, and indexing enterprise-wide information developed for NASA enterprise applications. Information is managed in a contextualized form, but one that is schema-less for immediate storage and retrieval without the need for a schema manager or database administrator. NETMARK is accessed via the WebDAV (HTTP) standard protocol for remote document management and a simple HTTP query algebra for immediate retrieval of information in an XML structured format for processing by applications such as Web 2.0 (AJAX) systems.

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Maluf, D.A., Knight, C.D. (2009). Achieving Scalability with Schema-Less Databases. In: Ras, Z.W., Dardzinska, A. (eds) Advances in Data Management. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02190-9_12

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