Information Grid Technology
From Information Grid
Information Grid is a generic infrastructure that facilitates the integration of any information anywhere across heterogeneous data sources under grid environment. Particularly, information grid forms a virtualization of data sources to enable an integration of any information available in any data sources. In addition, it provides seamless information integration independent of local schemas and data sources based on an application of standard mediated schemas.
[edit] Information Grid Components
- MDL instances
- define XML-based standard mediated schemas
- Information Brokers
- discover data sources
- integrate information returned from information services and other information brokers
- Information Services
- transform generalized to specialized query
- access information
- transform result in specialized to standard format as per a MDL instance
- Data Sources
- sources of data such as databases and XML files
