A functional model for macro-databases
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGMOD Record
- Vol. 20 (1) , 3-8
- https://doi.org/10.1145/122050.122051
Abstract
Recently there have been numerous proposals aimed at correcting the deficiency in existing database models to manipulate macro data (such as summary tables). The authors propose a new functional model, Mefisto, based on the definition of a new data structure, the “statistical entity”, and on a set of operations capable of manipulating this data structure by operating at metadata level.Keywords
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