IMPLEMENTATION OF SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA AS A FIRST-CLASS DATABASE ELEMENT

摘要

A system, apparatus, and method for managing data storage and data access for semi-structured data systems.

主权项

1. A method for storing semi-structured data comprising:
receiving semi-structured data elements from a data source; performing statistical analysis on collections of the semi-structured data elements as they are added to the database; identifying common data elements from within the semi-structured data; assigning the common data elements as first class data and as lesser class data dependent on a threshold of commonality; combining the common data elements from the data source into separate pseudo-columns; and storing first class data in cache memory in pseudo columns and making metadata and statistics corresponding to the pseudo-columns of the first class data elements available to a computer based query generator.