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Bridging Heterogeneity: Research and Practice of Database Middleware Technology
Summary: Brings heterogeneous, multi-vendor DBs under a single virtual schema MENTAS, bridging ontologies with commercial middleware. AIDA/BRITY enables algebra-graph query translation; Java GUI enables federated SQL and a critical view of middleware strengths.
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- Paper ID
- 8543
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 1998
- Pagerank
- -
- Overall Rank
- 13,989 | 2.69%
- DOI
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