Scalability, Availability, Reproducibility and Extensibility in Islamic Database Systems

TL;DR

This paper discusses the challenges of ensuring authenticity, scalability, and extensibility in Islamic database systems, and introduces the QuranResearch.Org platform to address these issues.

Contribution

It presents the QuranResearch.Org system, focusing on improving scalability, availability, reproducibility, and extensibility in Islamic database applications.

Findings

Proposes a comprehensive platform for Islamic databases

Addresses issues of authenticity and reproducibility

Enhances scalability and extensibility of Islamic data systems

Abstract

With the widespread of software systems and applications that serve the Islamic knowledge domain, several concerns arise. Authenticity and accuracy of the databases that back up these systems are questionable. With the excitement that some software developers and amateur researchers may have, false statements and incorrect claims may be made around numerical signs or miracles in the Quran. Reproducibility of these claims may not be addressed by the people making such claims. Moreover, with the increase in the number of users, scalability and availability of these systems become a concern. In addition to all these concerns, extensibility is also another major issue. Properly designed systems can be extensible, reusable and built on top of one another, instead of each system being built from scratch every time a new framework is developed. In this paper, we introduce the QuranResearch.Org system and its vision for scalability, availability, reproducibility and extensibility to serve Islamic database systems.