PeerDB: Peering into Personal Databases

Summary: PeerDB demonstrates a P2P framework for publishing and querying personal databases on laptops. Each node indexes a user’s DB and lets peers query it, enabling decentralized, publish-for-query access akin to personal websites but with database capabilities. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3538
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2003
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,920 | 4.50%
DOI: 10.1145/872757.872845

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Authors

1. Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore)
2. Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore)
3. Aoying Zhou (Fudan University)
4. Chin Hong Goh (National University of Singapore)
5. Yingguang Li (National University of Singapore)
6. Chu Yee Liau (National University of Singapore)
7. Bo Ling (Fudan University)
8. Wee Siong Ng (National University of Singapore)
9. Yanfeng Shu (National University of Singapore)
10. Xiaoyu Wang (Fudan University)
11. Ming Zhang (National University of Singapore)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ooi_sigmod03,
        title = {{PeerDB: Peering into Personal Databases}},
        author = {Ooi, Beng Chin and Tan, Kian-Lee and Zhou, Aoying and Goh, Chin Hong and Li, Yingguang and Liau, Chu Yee and Ling, Bo and Ng, Wee Siong and Shu, Yanfeng and Wang, Xiaoyu and Zhang, Ming},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '03},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/872757.872845},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872757.872845},
        year = {2003}
}

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