A generic storage API
Abstract
We present a generic API suitable for provision of highly generic storage facilities that can be tailored to produce various individually customised storage infrastructures. The paper identifies a candidate set of minimal storage system building blocks, which are sufficiently simple to avoid encapsulating policy where it cannot be customised by applications, and composable to build highly flexible storage architectures. Four main generic components are defined: the store, the namer, the caster and the interpreter. It is hypothesised that these are sufficiently general that they could act as building blocks for any information storage and retrieval system. The essential characteristics of each are defined by an interface, which may be implemented by multiple implementing classes.
Citation
Kirby , G , Zirintsis , E , Dearle , A & Morrison , R 2003 , A generic storage API . Technical Report , no. CS/0302 , University of St Andrews .
Type
Report
Description
Submitted to ACSC 2004 This work was supported by EPSRC grant GR/R45154 "Bulk Storage of XML Documents"Collections
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