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Google Fusion Tables: Data Management, Integration, and Collaboration in the Cloud
Abstract: Google Fusion Tables is a cloud-based service for data
management and integration. Fusion Tables enables users to upload tabular data les
(spreadsheets, CSV, KML), currently of up to 100MB. The system provides several ways of
visualizing the data (e.g., charts, maps, and timelines) and the ability to filter and
aggregate the data. It supports the integration of data from multiple sources by
performing joins across tables that may belong to dierent users. Users can keep the
data private, share it with a select set of collaborators, or make it public and thus
crawlable by search engines. The discussion feature of Fusion Tables allows
collaborators to conduct detailed discussions of the data at the level of tables and
individual rows, columns, and cells. This paper describes the inner workings of Fusion
Tables, including the storage of data in the system and the tight integration with the
Google Maps infrastructure.
