Thesis Topic Details
Topic ID: |
3191 | |
Title: |
Comparative Study of Database Approaches | |
Supervisor: |
John Shepherd | |
Research Area: |
Databases, Software Engineering | |
| Associated Staff | ||
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Assessor: |
Wei Wang | |
| Topic Details | ||
Status: |
Active | |
Type: |
Research | |
Programs: |
CE BINF SE | |
Group Suitable: |
No | |
Industrial: |
No | |
Pre-requisites: |
COMP3311 | |
Description: |
Ever since it was invented, there has been talk of replacing the relational data model and SQL in particular by "more expressive" or "more scalable" data modelling and querying formalisms. From the data modelling perspective, people have proposed XML and, more recently, RDF as better approaches to modelling complex (esp. graph-based) data. From the programming perspective, ORM frameworks, which attempt to hid the relational database behind a layer of object-orientation in order to improve productivity, have been popular. More recently, so-called "web-scale" databases, based on novel (in the database world) operations such as map-reduce have been proposed. This project aims, starting from case studies, to understand the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches, from a number of perspectives (data modelling, system building, query perfomance). | |
Comments: |
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