Bridging Heterogeneity: Research and Practice of Database Middleware Technology

Summary: Presents MENTAS, an engineer-oriented middleware environment offering global virtual-schema access, SQL querying, and cross-database joins/comparison. AIDA’s BRIDITY-based generic translation resolves schema and ontology conflicts for heterogeneous data integration and migration. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8734
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
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Overall Rank: 14,189 | 2.66%
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Authors

1. Fernando de Ferreira Rezende (Daimler-Benz AG)
2. Günter Sauter (Daimler-Benz AG)

BibTeX Citation

@article{rezende_vldb98,
        title = {{Bridging Heterogeneity: Research and Practice of Database Middleware Technology}},
        author = {Rezende, Fernando de Ferreira and Sauter, Günter},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        pages = {699},
        year = {1998}
}

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12,949	VLDB Industrial Exhibits	1998	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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