[ACM Press the 1st International Workshop - Istanbul, Turkey (2012.08.31-2012.08.31)] Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence - Cloud-I '12 - Towards a hybrid row-column database for a cloud-based medical data management system

✍ Scribed by Mohamad, Baraa; d'Orazio, Laurent; Gruenwald, Le

• Book ID: 121802103
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2012
• Weight: 240 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1450315968
• DOI: 10.1145/2347673.2347675

✦ Synopsis

Medical data management becomes a real exigency. The emergence of new medical imaging techniques and the necessity to access medical information at any time have led to an inevitable need to find new advanced solutions for managing these critical data. Actual local archiving systems are very expensive and cannot support this heterogeneous and enormous data size. Cloud computing has attracted significant attention due to its major characteristics of elasticity, availability and pay-per-use. A good exploitation of this infrastructure constitutes an effective and promising solution for managing medical data and images. In this position paper, we highlight the challenges in integrating highly heterogeneous data such as DICOM files in the clouds. We then propose a novel hybrid row-column, two-level database architecture for the storage of heterogeneous data over the cloud.