| 摘要 |
In a search method, integration metadata is newly introduced in which structure data defining an output structure of a query result, a correspondence relation between elements in the structure data and elements in databases, an association of elements between the databases and a bi-directional conversion function applied to said association of said elements between said databases or a specific element of said databases are defined. And, this search method includes: accepting a query of integrated data reference for a plurality of databases; extracting a value of an element in database, which corresponds to the top-level element in a structure identified from the integration metadata in a integration metadata storage by upwardly tracing the structure based on the query; extracting a value of each element in each database by downwardly tracing the structure based on a value of an element in the database, which corresponding to the top-level element in the structure; and outputting the extracted value of each element in each database according to data stored in the integration metadata storage.
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