Abstract
Semistructured data has no absolute schema fixed in advance and its structure may be irregular or incomplete. Such data commonly arises in sources that do not impose a rigid structure (such as the World-Wide Web) and when data is combined from several heterogeneous sources. Data models and query languages designed for well structured data are inappropriate in such environments. Starting with a “lightweight” object model adopted for the TSIMMIS project at Stanford, in this paper we describe a query language and object repository designed specifically for semistructured data. Our language provides meaningful query results in cases where conventional models and languages do not: when some data is absent, when data does not have regular structure, when similar concepts are represented using different types, when heterogeneous sets are present, and when object structure is not fully known. This paper motivates the key concepts behind our approach, describes the language through a series of examples (a complete semantics is available in an accompanying technical report [QRS+94]), and describes the basic architecture and query processing strategy of the “lightweight” object repository we have developed.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases - 4th International Conference, DOOD 1995, Proceedings |
Editors | Tok Wang Ling, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Laurent Vieille |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 319-344 |
Number of pages | 26 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783540606086 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1995 |
Event | 4th International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, DOOD 1995 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 4 Dec 1995 → 7 Dec 1995 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 1013 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 4th International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, DOOD 1995 |
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Country/Territory | Singapore |
City | Singapore |
Period | 4/12/95 → 7/12/95 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995.