How do you store the vast amount of information present in a global product information system? Which technologies can scale to hold data from producers, distributors and consumers on millions of different goods?
Pengcheng Lu wrote his MSc dissertation on one potential solution: Distributed Hash Tables, a type of distributed filesystem being developed by researchers at UCL and a number of other universities. Please do have a look at his well-researched Distributed Database report and let us know what you think!