TY - GEN
T1 - Blockchain enabled distributed data management - A vision
AU - Baig, Furqan
AU - Wang, Fusheng
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/4
Y1 - 2019/4
N2 - Blockchain has gained much attention in recent academic and research works not only in crypto-currency but also in many other fields such as supply chain, health, storage etc. The application of blockchain in data management domain, however, is mostly geared towards the aspect of security and immutability. In this paper we propose integrating blockchain with distributed data management and study some open challenges and assumptions in doing so. We claim that, from data management perspective, blockchain's ability to handle unequal participants is more important than security and immutability. Finally, we propose possible ideas to integrate blockchain into distributed data transaction and management workflows to design a globally consistent data store ensuring availability guarantees along with support for unifying heterogeneous data backends.
AB - Blockchain has gained much attention in recent academic and research works not only in crypto-currency but also in many other fields such as supply chain, health, storage etc. The application of blockchain in data management domain, however, is mostly geared towards the aspect of security and immutability. In this paper we propose integrating blockchain with distributed data management and study some open challenges and assumptions in doing so. We claim that, from data management perspective, blockchain's ability to handle unequal participants is more important than security and immutability. Finally, we propose possible ideas to integrate blockchain into distributed data transaction and management workflows to design a globally consistent data store ensuring availability guarantees along with support for unifying heterogeneous data backends.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Data management
KW - Distributed systems
KW - Transaction management
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85069173752
U2 - 10.1109/ICDEW.2019.00-39
DO - 10.1109/ICDEW.2019.00-39
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2019
SP - 28
EP - 30
BT - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2019
Y2 - 8 April 2019 through 12 April 2019
ER -