Editing P-Grid (section)

== Salient features ==

* Good storage load-balancing despite arbitrary load-distribution over the key-space.<ref name="Antonopoulos">{{cite book |last1=Antonopoulos |first1=Nick |title=Handbook of Research on P2P and Grid Systems for Service-Oriented Computing: Models, Methodologies and Applications: Models, Methodologies and Applications |date=2010 |publisher=IGI Global |pages=323–892}}</ref>
* Range queries can be naturally supported and efficiently processed on P-Grid because P-Grid abstracts a trie-structure, and supports (rather) arbitrary distribution of keys, as observed in realistic scenarios.<ref name="Antonopoulos" />
* A Self-referential directory is realized to provide peer identity persistence over multiple sessions.<ref name="Antonopoulos" />
* A gossip primitive based update mechanism for keeping replicated content up-to-date.<ref name="Antonopoulos" />
* Easy merger of multiple P-Grids, and hence decentralized bootstrapping of the P-Grid network.<ref name="Antonopoulos" />
* Query-adaptive caching is easy to realize on P-Grid to provide query load-balancing where peers have restricted capacity.<ref name="Antonopoulos" />