Large Science Databases – Are Cloud Services Ready for Them?

We report on attempts to put an astronomical database – the Sloan Digital Sky Survey science archive – in the cloud. We find that it is very frustrating to impossible at this time to migrate a complex SQL Server database into current cloud service offerings such as Amazon (EC2) and Microsoft (SQL Az...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ani Thakar, Alex Szalay, Ken Church, Andreas Terzis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Scientific Programming
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SPR-2011-0325