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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

UMLtoGraphDB: Mapping Conceptual Schemas to Graph Databases

Authors : Gwendal Daniel, Gerson Sunyé, Jordi Cabot

Published in: Conceptual Modeling

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Abstract

The need to store and manipulate large volume of (unstructured) data has led to the development of several NoSQL databases for better scalability. Graph databases are a particular kind of NoSQL databases that have proven their efficiency to store and query highly interconnected data, and have become a promising solution for multiple applications. While the mapping of conceptual schemas to relational databases is a well-studied field of research, there are only few solutions that target conceptual modeling for NoSQL databases and even less focusing on graph databases. This is specially true when dealing with the mapping of business rules and constraints in the conceptual schema. In this article we describe a mapping from UML/OCL conceptual schemas to Blueprints, an abstraction layer on top of a variety of graph databases, and Gremlin, a graph traversal language, via an intermediate Graph metamodel. Tool support is fully available.

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Implementation list is available at https://​github.​com/​tinkerpop/​blueprints.
 
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Metadata
Title
UMLtoGraphDB: Mapping Conceptual Schemas to Graph Databases
Authors
Gwendal Daniel
Gerson Sunyé
Jordi Cabot
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Conceptual Modeling

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-46396-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-46397-1

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46397-1_33

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