The efficient management of a consistent and integrated database is a
central task in modern IT and highly relevant for science and industry.
Hardly any critical enterprise solution comes without any functionality
for managing data in its different forms.
Web-Scale Data Management for the Cloud addresses fundamental
challenges posed by the need and desire to provide database
functionality in the context of the Database as a Service (DBaaS)
paradigm for database outsourcing. This book also discusses the
motivation of the new paradigm of cloud computing, and its impact to
data outsourcing and service-oriented computing in data-intensive
applications. Techniques with respect to the support in the current
cloud environments, major challenges, and future trends are covered in
the last section of this book. A survey addressing the techniques and
special requirements for building database services are provided in this
book as well.