SQLshare: Collaborative Science Via Relational View Sharing
SQLShare is a Web-based query-as-a-service system that eliminates the initial setup costs associated with conventional database projects and instead emphasizes a simple upload-query-share protocol: users can upload their table-structured files through a browser and immediately query them using SQL without needing schema design, preprocessing, or the assistance of database administrators. SQLShare users derive new data-sets by writing and saving SQL queries; these derived datasets can be queried and manipulated in the same way as uploaded datasets. Each derived dataset is managed as a view in the underlying database: a named, permanently stored query.