| 6 | We summary the meaning of each table below. Table names are shown in bold. |
| 7 | * A '''platform''' contains a set of nodes. Examples of a platform include SETI@home, desktops at Microsoft. |
| 8 | * A '''node''' contains a set of components, which is a software module or hardware resource of the node. Each node can have several components (e.g. CPU speed, availability memory, client availability), each of which has a corresponding trace. |
| 9 | * A '''component''' describes attributes of a software module or hardware resource of a node. |
| 10 | * '''component_perf''' is the component performance, as measured through benchmarks for example. |
| 11 | * A '''creator''' is the person responsible for the trace data set. This table stores details about citations and copyright. |
| 12 | * An '''event_trace''' is the trace of an event, with all of corresponding timing information |
| 13 | * '''event_state''' is the state corresponding to an event_trace. For example, for CPU availability, the event_state could be the idleness of the CPU. For host availability, it could be the monitoring information associated with the event. |