DYNAMIC DATABASE INTEGRATION IN A JDBC DRIVER

Terrence Mason, Ramon Lawrence

2005

Abstract

Current integration techniques are unsuitable for large-scale integrations involving numerous heterogeneous data sources. Existing methods either require the user to know the semantics of all data sources or they impose a static global view that is not tolerant of schema evolution. These assumptions are not valid in many environments. We present a different approach to integration based on annotation. The contribution is the elimination of the bottleneck of global view construction by moving the complicated task of identifying semantics to local annotators instead of global integrators. This allows the integration to be more automated, scaleable, and rapidly deployable. The algorithms are packaged in an embedded database engine contained in a JDBC driver capable of dynamically integrating data sources. Experimental results demonstrate that the Unity JDBC driver efficiently integrates data located in separate data sources with minimal overhead.

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Mason T. and Lawrence R. (2005). DYNAMIC DATABASE INTEGRATION IN A JDBC DRIVER . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 326-333. DOI: 10.5220/0002552103260333


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@conference{iceis05,
author={Terrence Mason and Ramon Lawrence},
title={DYNAMIC DATABASE INTEGRATION IN A JDBC DRIVER},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={326-333},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002552103260333},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - DYNAMIC DATABASE INTEGRATION IN A JDBC DRIVER
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Mason T.
AU - Lawrence R.
PY - 2005
SP - 326
EP - 333
DO - 10.5220/0002552103260333