In document stores, schema is a soft concept and the documents in a collection can have different schemata; this gives designers and implementers augmented flexibility but requires an extra effort to understand the rules that drove the use of alternative schemata when heterogeneous documents are to be analyzed or integrated. In this paper we outline a technique, called schema profiling, to explain the schema variants within a collection in document stores by capturing the hidden rules explaining the use of these variants; we express these rules in the form of a decision tree, called schema profile, whose main feature is the coexistence of value-based and schema-based conditions. Consistently with the requirements we elicited from real users, we aim at creating explicative, precise, and concise schema profiles; to quantitatively assess these qualities we introduce a novel measure of entropy.

Schema Profiling of Document Stores

GALLINUCCI, ENRICO;GOLFARELLI, MATTEO;RIZZI, STEFANO
2017

Abstract

In document stores, schema is a soft concept and the documents in a collection can have different schemata; this gives designers and implementers augmented flexibility but requires an extra effort to understand the rules that drove the use of alternative schemata when heterogeneous documents are to be analyzed or integrated. In this paper we outline a technique, called schema profiling, to explain the schema variants within a collection in document stores by capturing the hidden rules explaining the use of these variants; we express these rules in the form of a decision tree, called schema profile, whose main feature is the coexistence of value-based and schema-based conditions. Consistently with the requirements we elicited from real users, we aim at creating explicative, precise, and concise schema profiles; to quantitatively assess these qualities we introduce a novel measure of entropy.
2017
Proceedings 25th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
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Gallinucci, Enrico; Golfarelli, Matteo; Rizzi, Stefano
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