Emerging Technologies in Computing. First International Conference, iCETiC 2018, London, UK, August 23–24, 2018, Proceedings

Research Article

An Analysis of a Methodology that Transforms the Entity-Relationship Model into a Conceptual Model for a Graph Database

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-95450-9_6,
        author={Fern\^{a}n Villa and Francisco Moreno and Jaime Guzm\^{a}n},
        title={An Analysis of a Methodology that Transforms the Entity-Relationship Model into a Conceptual Model for a Graph Database},
        proceedings={Emerging Technologies in Computing. First International Conference, iCETiC 2018, London, UK, August 23--24, 2018, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={ICETIC},
        year={2018},
        month={7},
        keywords={Graph databases Entity-relationship model Conceptual models Model transformation},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-95450-9_6}
    }
    
  • Fernán Villa
    Francisco Moreno
    Jaime Guzmán
    Year: 2018
    An Analysis of a Methodology that Transforms the Entity-Relationship Model into a Conceptual Model for a Graph Database
    ICETIC
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95450-9_6
Fernán Villa1,*, Francisco Moreno1,*, Jaime Guzmán1,*
  • 1: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
*Contact email: favillao@unal.edu.co, fjmoreno@unal.edu.co, jaguzman@unal.edu.co

Abstract

The graph databases (GDB) have gained a lot of importance in the last years; this is due to the necessity to store and manage very large volumes of data whose natural structure is a graph. However, nowadays there do not exist conceptual models widely accepted to represent a GDB. This fact implies that the analysts are guided considering their experience and best practices. There have been proposed different conceptual models for GDB; in this paper, we analyze a methodology that generates a conceptual model for a GDB from the entity-relationship (E-R) model. We explore several limitations of this methodology and offer some ideas for solving them.