Report on the XBase Project

This project addressed the conceptual fundamentals of data storage, investigating techniques for provision of highly generic storage facilities that can be tailored to produce various individually customised storage infrastructures, compliant to the needs of particular applications. This requires the separation of mechanism and policy wherever possible. Aspirations include: actors, whether users or individual processes, should be able to bind to, update and manipulate data and programs transparently with respect to their respective locations; programs should be expressed independently of the storage and network technology involved in their execution; storage facilities should be structure-neutral so that actors can impose multiple interpretations over information, simultaneously and safely; information should not be discarded so that arbitrary historical views are supported; raw stored information should be open to all; where security restrictions on its use are required this should b...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Evangelos Zirintsis, Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Ronald Morrison
• Keywords: CORR 2010, Data Storage, Education, Generic Storage Facilities, Storage Facilities