Suitability of datamodels as canonical models for federated databases
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGMOD Record
- Vol. 20 (4) , 44-48
- https://doi.org/10.1145/141356.141377
Abstract
We develop a framework of characteristics, essential and recommended, that a data model should have to be suitable as canonical model for federated databases. This framework is based on the two factors of the representation ability of a model: expressiveness and semantic relativism . Several data models are analyzed with repect to the characteristics of the framework, to evaluate their adequacy as canonical models.Keywords
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