Generating data integration mediators that use materialization

摘要

This paper presents a framework for data integration that is based on using “Squirrel integration mediators” that use materialization to support integrated views over multiple databases. These mediators generalize techniques from active databases to provide incremental propagation of updates to the materialized views. A framework based on “View Decomposition Plans” for optimizing the support of materialized integrated views is introduced. The paper describes the Squirrel mediator generator currently under development, which can generate the mediators based on high-level specifications.