MQL: A Mapping Management Language for Model-based Databases

Valéry Téguiak, Yamine Ait-Ameur, Stéphane Jean, Éric Sardet

2012

Abstract

Nowadays model mapping plays a crucial role in applications manipulating various heterogeneous sources (data integration and exchange, datawarehouse, etc.). Users need to query a given data source and still obtain results from other mapped sources. If many model management systems have been proposed that support highlevel operators on model mappings, a more flexible approach is needed supporting the querying of mapping models and the propagation of queries through mappings. As a solution, we present, in this paper, a mapping based query language called MQL (Mapping Query Language). MQL extends the SQL language with new operators to exploit mappings. We show the interest of this language for the multi-model ontology design methodology proposed in the DaFOE4App (Differential and Formal Ontology Editor for Application) project.

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Téguiak V., Ait-Ameur Y., Jean S. and Sardet É. (2012). MQL: A Mapping Management Language for Model-based Databases . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-10-5, pages 145-150. DOI: 10.5220/0003998601450150


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@conference{iceis12,
author={Valéry Téguiak and Yamine Ait-Ameur and Stéphane Jean and Éric Sardet},
title={MQL: A Mapping Management Language for Model-based Databases},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2012},
pages={145-150},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003998601450150},
isbn={978-989-8565-10-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - MQL: A Mapping Management Language for Model-based Databases
SN - 978-989-8565-10-5
AU - Téguiak V.
AU - Ait-Ameur Y.
AU - Jean S.
AU - Sardet É.
PY - 2012
SP - 145
EP - 150
DO - 10.5220/0003998601450150