Combining Systems and Databases: A Search Engine Retrospective Export

@inbook{citeulike:2326926, abstract = {Although a search engine manages a great deal of data and responds to queries, it is not accurately described as a "database" or DMBS. We believe that it represents the first of many application-specific data systems built by the systems community that must exploit the principles of databases without necessarily using the (current) database implementations. In this paper, we present how a search engine should have been designed in hindsight. Although much of the material has not been presented before, the contribution is not in the specific design, but rather in the combination of principles from the largely independent disciplines of "systems" and "databases." Thus we present the design using the ideas and vocabulary of the database community as a model of how to design data-intensive systems. We then draw some conclusions about the application of database principles to other "out of the box" data-intensive systems.}, author = {Brewer, Eric A.}, booktitle = {Readings in Database Systems, Fourth Edition}, citeulike-article-id = {2326926}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/SearchDB.pdf}, keywords = {cs262a, dbms, information-retrieval, prelim, systems}, pages = {711--724}, posted-at = {2008-11-05 19:57:25}, priority = {0}, publisher = {MIT Press}, title = {Combining Systems and Databases: A Search Engine Retrospective}, url = {http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/SearchDB.pdf}, year = {2005} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2326926 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2326926 N2 - Although a search engine manages a great deal of data and responds to queries, it is not accurately described as a "database" or DMBS. We believe that it represents the first of many application-specific data systems built by the systems community that must exploit the principles of databases without necessarily using the (current) database implementations. In this paper, we present how a search engine should have been designed in hindsight. Although much of the material has not been presented before, the contribution is not in the specific design, but rather in the combination of principles from the largely independent disciplines of "systems" and "databases." Thus we present the design using the ideas and vocabulary of the database community as a model of how to design data-intensive systems. We then draw some conclusions about the application of database principles to other "out of the box" data-intensive systems. EP - 724 TI - Combining Systems and Databases: A Search Engine Retrospective PB - MIT Press T2 - Readings in Database Systems, Fourth Edition SP - 711 KW - cs262a KW - dbms KW - information-retrieval KW - prelim KW - systems AU - Brewer, Eric PY - 2005/// UR - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/SearchDB.pdf ER -