[p2p-hackers] DHT and complex queries

[Davide Carboni]

Hi, I'm developing a P2P system where clients must be able to send
complex queries such as:

author equal "foo"
and
publicationDate is between "12 12 1999" and "12 12 2000"
andnot
distributor startswith "galax"

etc. etc.

I'm reading some papers about DHT and I wonder whether or not DHT is a
viable solution for these requirements. I know that with DHT you can
map a key onto a piece of data, but I cannot see how to manage complex
query like the one in the example. Probably DHT is not the "good"
solution for this...but never know,

Any hints?
Bye.
Davide


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